Hi,
I am not sure that i have understood You exactly but here is
what i have done:
I mapped all the html requests on a virtual host to Servlet
and in servlet i called
String pathinfo=request.getPathInfo();
String pathtranslated=request.getPathTranslated();
and than knew what is the exact html file that was requested
Hope it helps,
Andras.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kyallee Dalrymple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 6:07 PM
Subject: Using servlet in place of webserver authentication
> I'm trying to protect a directory on my webserver using a servlet instead
of
> an ACL. For example, I want any request to the directory
> http://myhost.com/protected/ to forward to MyServlet, which pops a
challenge
> box and checks the client's username and password against a database, and
> then returns the originally requested page to the client.
>
> I've tried using URL forwarding to map all requests to the protected
> directory to MyServlet, but then I have no way of knowing what the
original
> request was. Does anyone know how to get that info? It doesn't appear to
> be in any of the headers.
>
> I've thought of simply forwarding to some index page in the protected
> directory, but then subsequent requests to that directory won't work --
> they'll be directed back to the index page via MyServlet. Putting the
> additional protected content into another directory defeats the purpose of
> trying to protect it with a servlet in the first place.
>
> What I really want to do is tell the webserver that when it authenticates,
> don't check it against its own ACL -- check it against the response from
> MyServlet. So far, I haven't figured out a way to do this.
>
> I'm testing this using NES 3.6 from my NT box, but we'll most likely be
> deploying on IIS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> -- Kyal
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Kyallee Dalrymple [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Software Engineer (303)-277-1997 x108
> Polygon Network, Inc. http://www.polygon.net/
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
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