hi! maybe it's because the RequestDispatcher object you're refering to in your doPost method is an instance variable of your servlet (and not local to doPost). -mw
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Diodato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 8:10 PM Subject: Question - Problem | Hello All, | | Here is my scenario. | I have Tomcat 3.2.4 running on IIS 5.0 | | I have an html page as my entrance to the website. | (http://www.domainname.com/index.html) | On this site is a form to login, with you user name and password. | | When the user clicks submit, they get sent to a servlet that I wrote. | This servlet verify's their username and password, and should re-direct them | to a certain pace depending on who they are. | If I use response.sendRedirect(site); | it sends them to the right webpage, but it doesn't seem like the session is | created. | | I test the page to see if there is a valid session, and I get a Null | Pointer. | Here is what Im doing there. | | if (userSesson.getValue("userName") == null) { | // redirect them to login because the session isn't valid | } else { | // display the page.. | } | | If I use the rd.forward() method | they never get re-directed anywhere | | | Here is my doPost() code... | | String error = null, | site = ("/index.html"); | ServletConfig servletConfig = null; | ServletContext servletContext = null; | RequestDispatcher rd = null; | | public void doPost (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse | response) throws ServletException, IOException { | | // Get the current session object, create one if necessary | HttpSession userSession = request.getSession(true); | | if (Authenticate.verifyUsername(request.getParameter("userName"))) { | userSession.putValue("userName", | request.getParameter("userName")); | | if | (Authenticate.verifyPassword(request.getParameter("userName"), | request.getParameter("password"))) { | userSession.putValue("password", | request.getParameter("password")); | | if | (Customers.isAcclaim(request.getParameter("userName"))) { | if | (Customers.isWholesale(request.getParameter("userName"))) { | site = "/cocoon/choose.xml"; | } else { | site = "/cocoon/acclaim/index.xml"; | } | } else { | if | (Customers.isWholesale(request.getParameter("userName"))) { | site = "/cocoon/yCust/index.xml"; | } else { | site = "/cocoon/choose.xml"; | } | } | | } else { | error = "We could not match your Password with your | Username, Please re-enter your login information."; | userSession.invalidate(); | } | | } else { | error = "We could not verify your Username, Please re-enter | your login information."; | userSession.invalidate(); | } | | servletConfig = getServletConfig(); | servletContext = servletConfig.getServletContext(); | rd = servletContext.getRequestDispatcher(site); | | rd.forward(request, response); | } | | | What I want to do is this. | I want my servlet to re-direct them to the proper page while passing my | session to it, so I can verify it in my xml pages. | | Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. | Thanks | Anthony | | Anthony Diodato | Webmaster - IT | Prophet 21, Inc. | 19 West College Avenue | Yardley, PA 19067 | 1-800-776-7438, ext. 4600 | Fax: 215-321-8014 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.p21.com/ | Prophet 21 -- Powering the Distribution Industry for the Digital Age | | For the latest press releases from Prophet 21 -- | http://www.p21.com/press/press.html | * 2/12/2001 - Trading Partner Connect Offers Enterprise-to-Enterprise | (E2E) Commerce | * 2/9/2001 -- Prophet 21 CommerceCenter 8.0 is Now Available | * 2/9/2001 -- Prophet 21 Upgrades and Enhances Prophet 21 Acclaim | For the latest articles on Prophet 21 | http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/id/archives/2001/ind010.02/techupdate. | htm | http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/id/develop/techmain01.1.htm | http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/id/archives/2000/ind1201/news.htm | | | | | Visit our website at http://www.p21.com/visit | The information in this e-mail is confidential and may contain legally | privileged information. 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