Re: Fwd: Re: question about inter-webapp communication

2011-10-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garey, (Thanks for taking this back onto the list). On 10/19/2011 5:07 PM, Garey Mills wrote: Geoserver only has basic authentication on an object by object level. We are deploying it in a unversity that has a Centralized Authentication Server,

question about inter-webapp communication

2011-10-19 Thread Garey Mills
Hello - Tomcat 7.0.8 on RHEL6. I have two webapps, one accessed at /webapp_one and one at /webapp_two. My question has to do with how to include output from /webapp_two in the output of /webapp_one. I want to use /webapp_one as an authentication front end for /webapp_two, since

Re: question about inter-webapp communication

2011-10-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garey, On 10/19/2011 1:56 PM, Garey Mills wrote: I want to use /webapp_one as an authentication front end for /webapp_two, since /webapp_two is a large, complex web app and I want to do authentication filtering on patterns in the query string.

Fwd: Re: question about inter-webapp communication

2011-10-19 Thread Garey Mills
Christopher - Thanks for your reply. I am just going to respond to your first question here, because it may be that I need to rethink the whole thing. /webapp_two is Geoserver, a complex web app that receives requests for geolocated content and returns it in a number of

Re: Fwd: Re: question about inter-webapp communication

2011-10-19 Thread André Warnier
Garey Mills wrote: ... Need some time to think about this, but I agree with Christopher that there should be a simpler way than what you first outlined. For a start, have you looked at the urlrewrite filter ? http://urlrewritefilter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/doc/manual/3.2/index.html