I don't think it's constructive to simply criticize 'presumably repeat'
questions. I'm sure most of us do search the archive before putting up a
question, although some maybe more successful in formulating search
criteria.
If someone knows there's been a posting here that answers the question, i'm sure it
wouldn't take much more
effort (beyond telling ppl that they haven't looked in the archives) to add a few
useful search tips.
And it would help to read a question carefully before jumping to conclusion that the
question must have been
answered innumnerable times before.
I asked a related question about half a yr back.
>Is it possible to for a servlet to change/set some properties of the request
>(e.g. remote user ) so that information can be logged in the standard web server
>logs? I'm using the Apache web server.
It's about setting request attributes from a servlet so that it would be available to
the web server for
subsequent use, e.g. logging in the standard webserver log.
I didn't get any response and didn't pursue it much further as it wasn't really
critical for me to solve that.
I just thought it was probably not possible for a servlet to do that. Though I would
appreciate other suggestions of any other ways to
pass user authentication info reliably to webserver log.
When I read Nic's posting, I went through postings that match 'authentication',
'environment', etc.
When I read Milt's, I went through the 80+ matches to 'remote user' too. But I still
don't find an answer to Ed's or my question.
Most postings were about *getting* user authentication info from a servlet.
Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ed Wittmann wrote:
>> By the way, sir:
>>
>> searching for "set remote_user" returns 0 matches.
>> searching for "set remote user" returns 3 matches, one of which is
>> my question, one of which is your "helpful" answer, and one which is
>> another question.
>Hmmm, my search for "remote user" returned "50 matches (more
>available)". Looks like you need to put a little more work and
>imagination into your searches.
> If you don't want to answer my question, there's no need to flame.
>Well, perhaps Nic hasn't had his morning coffee -- or should that be
>afternoon tea? :-), but off-topic and simple, repeat questions are a
>problem on this list, and they do get annoying.
>> >>> Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/06/00 08:47AM >>>
>> >>> Ed Wittmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06-Jul-00 3:13:33 PM >>>
>> >Can anyone here tell me if it's possible for a servlet to set
>> >the http REMOTE_USER environment variable?
>> >There doesn't seem to be much documentation on this
>> >sort of thing.
>>
>> You obviously haven't tried looking through the archives of this list
>> - I have answered innumnerable questions about authentication
>> environments and so have others.
>>
>> So to say there is "not much documentation" is nonsense frankly.
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