Hodwy all,
Well, I'm making progress here - got my servlet going, got my
connections to corba going, things are looking good.
I was wondering - does a mechanism exist for "returning" a request to
the server after the servlet software has intercepted it ?
The reason I ask is because I'm working on a secure web site, and I have
a mapping that grabs everything before it gets to the server, checks the
login and depending on pass/fail either returns or does not return the
requested document.
Works great, expect that I'm also intercepting cgi-bin requests, which
is not neccessarily a good thing. I wondering - is it possible to pass
that reqest back to the server ? That way I could grab the request and
deny it if there is not a good session going on, or return it to the
main server for processing if there is a session.
Now I am aware that servlets are meant to replace cgi-bin but our
product is meant to be bolted on to existing sites. If the customer has
to go through and replace all his cgi scripts with servlets, then we are
a non-starter.
At first I was planning to have my servlet simply execute the cgi
script, but I have been told that this is not as easy as it would seem.
I thought that all I had to do was write some environment variables, and
then then open an input and output stream, but I guess that it is a
little more complicated than that.
So, is such a thing possible ?
Alfonso.
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