Thanks for the reply. Sorry, I guess I didn't explain how I'm applying the filter well enough.
The filter is mapped to my JSP pages. When a user goes to the URL for the JSP page of interest they get a form to log in. The action of the form is j_security_check. When the filter is executed it occurs before j_security_check has been called, because they have tried to request a JSP page that is mapped to a filter and j_security_check is a servlet from what I understand. Filters as far as I know are a layer above servlets and the request goes through the filter first. That's why I need to, in my filter, call chain.doFilter(request, response). This makes sure that j_security_check has done its job. Then I can perform my redirect after j_security_check has done his job. So that's why I was using the filter. If you have any other ideas I'd really appreciate it. Thanks for your time and help. -Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:48 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Trying to use a filter to redirect to a servlet You can't run a filter against j_security_check -Tim Klotz Jr, Dennis wrote: > What I'm trying to do is once a user is authorized on my server, using FORM based authorization, I want a different servlet (other than what the user might have originally requested) to be called before any web page is shown to the user. The servlet helps manage a user's account and I need to let the servlet know as soon as the user has logged in. > > How can I do this? > > Here's what I've tried to do writing my own filter. > > example of my filter: > > public void doFilter(ServletRequest request,ServletResponse response,FilterChain chain) > { > // get authorized by j_security_check --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
