Erik Hanson wrote:
> Here's how you could do this without chaining:
>
> Create a servlet called AuthServlet that does your authentication for HTML
> pages. Alias it to "*.html" or "/" or whatever you want so all requests go
> through it. Its service method would look something like this:
>
> public void service( ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res )
> {
> MyAuthenticationClass.doAuthentication( req, res );
> }
>
> Now, at the beginning of the service (or doPost or doGet or whatever) method
> of all of your other servlets, add this line:
>
> MyAuthenticationClass.doAuthentication( req, res );
>
> Authentication will now happen whether an HTML file or a servlet is being
> called. It's a tiny bit of extra work (adding that one line of code to every
> servlet), but it will work on all servers.
>
Are you sure that will work ? It seems that the "/" mapping will break
.shtml pages.
Alfonso.
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