Re: How do I support a login form embedded in templates

2009-06-30 Thread Steve B.
Chris, Thanks, yes, a drive-by login is what I am after. I am bummed that Tomcat does not support this - it seems the common setup on most sites I visit on the Net. (I suppose it is more accurate to that say I am bummed that the J2EE standard does not define this behavior as Tomcat is only

Re: How do I support a login form embedded in templates

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Hi, Steve and Chris. Steve, can you use AJAX to request a protected resource and to provide username/password to your real login page (configured at web.xml) or directly to j_security_check ? I don't know if this will work (and if this is what you have in mind), but:

Re: How do I support a login form embedded in templates

2009-06-30 Thread André Warnier
Daniel Henrique Alves Lima wrote: Hi, Steve and Chris. Steve, can you use AJAX to request a protected resource and to provide username/password to your real login page (configured at web.xml) or directly to j_security_check ? I don't know if this will work (and if this

Re: How do I support a login form embedded in templates

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 16:32 +0200, André Warnier wrote: Daniel Henrique Alves Lima wrote: 2. When user fills the form in your small login box, - Send a JS XmlHttpRequest (AJAX) to a protected resource (for instance protected_resource.jsp); It seems to me that you can

Re: How do I support a login form embedded in templates

2009-06-29 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve, On 6/29/2009 1:58 PM, Steve B. wrote: I understand that Tomcat's FORM authorization setup expects me to secure URL's and then let Tomcat invoke the login form before proceeding to these URL's when requested. However, I have a site for