That's what I'm doing. My login.shtml screen actually has a <servlet> tag
that calls my Error servlet. The Error servlet does a
session.getValue("app.error") and displays it within that block. I set the
"app.error" session value within my login servlet upon an unsuccessful
attempt.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Store info in Servlet
>Another consideration might be to put out the login screen with the values
>intact and an error message rather than going to another screen to deliver
>an error message.
>
>Regards,
>Bob
>
>
>At 09:23 AM 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi Satish
>>
>> Let me understand what you are trying to do : you are using html to get
the
>>user to input the user-id and password and if it is incorrect you send a
page
>>which says that the user-id and password is incorrect and you want to
reload
>>the page on which the user had entered the user-id and password right.
>>
>>If this is the case why not use Javascript's back() function which will
keep
>>form values intact.
>>
>>Chitra
>>
>>Satish Talim wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Shashi,
>>>
>>> Can't I achieve this without using Applets? Just HTML and Servlets. Any
>>> sample code to help me out?
>>>
>>> Satish
>>>
>>> At 10:17 AM 2/24/99 +0530, you wrote:
>>> >Basically you want the data which is being entered by the Customer to
be
>>> >persistant. Since applet by itself can't keep all the data persistant,
>>> >the easiest method is to keep track of it in the Servlet running at the
>>> >server. Another easy method is let the Applet start communicating with
>>> >the Servlet, and also show the status of User Name verification. So,
>>> >steps will be
>>> >1. Applet will send data about the Login customer to Servlet
>>> >2. Servlet will verify the customer.
>>> >3. If there is an error, Sevlet will send back some data to Applet,
>>> >saying the User name is invalid.
>>> >4. The applet will display the same information.
>>> >5. So there is no need for you display a page just show that user has
to
>>> >typed wrong info.
>>> >
>>> >I hope this will help you...
>>> >
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: Satish Talim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 8:20 PM
>>> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >> Subject: Store info in Servlet
>>> >>
>>> >> Hello all,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have a simple application where a Customer enters his/hers Customer
>>> >> details and a UserName and Password on a Customer web page. This
>>> >> information is passed on to the servlet which checks the
>>> >> UserName/Password
>>> >> combination in a customer table using jdbc. In case the combination
>>> >> does
>>> >> not match, the servlet creates a web page informing that the
>>> >> UserName/Password is incorrect. After a specified time, the Customer
>>> >> web
>>> >> page should reload with the values the Customer had keyed in.
>>> >>
>>> >> I am not sure as to how to restore/save the values the Customer had
>>> >> keyed
>>> >> in on the Customer web page.
>>> >>
>>> >> I am using Java Web Server 1.1.3 and JSDK 2.0 with Java 2 on a
Windows
>>> >> 95
>>> >> machine.
>>> >>
>>> >> All help most appreciated.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> Satish
>>>
>>>
___________________________________________________________________________
>>> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the
body
>>> of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
>>>
>>> Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
>>> Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
>>> LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
>>
>>Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\chitra.jain.vcf"
>>
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
>To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
>of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
>
>Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
>Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
>LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
___________________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".
Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
