Are Servlet filters supposed to be called for both GET and POST
methods? They seem to be getting called for GETs only on Tomcat 5.
-Chris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parmar, Dipakkumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 03:57 PM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: handling form based authentication w/ remember-me cookie
> 
> Hi Max,
> 
> I haven't tested it either.  I read it about this in "IBM WebSphere V5.0
> Security handbook (page 64)".
> 
> Regards,
> Dipak Parmar
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:42 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: handling form based authentication w/ remember-me cookie
> 
> 
> Dipak,
> 
> Are you certain that the filter will be invoked on the /j_security_check
> request when container-based security is used? I have not tested this, but
> it would not surprise me to find that some containers do not execute filters
> on /j_security_check requests. I don't know if the Servlet Spec says
> anything about this case.
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Another alternative to the original problem of security with "remember me"
> functionality will be available soon. A patch has been submitted to my
> SecurityFilter project (http://www.securityfilter.org/) to support "remember
> me" functionality. The integration should be complete soon, and a beta
> release will be made available once the integration is complete.
> SecurityFilter works very much like container-managed security otherwise,
> including the configuration format (except that you declare the constraints
> in a separate config file rather than web.xml).
> 
> -Max
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Parmar, Dipakkumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:43 AM
> Subject: RE: handling form based authentication w/ remember-me cookie
> 
> 
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > You can do this using Servlet Filter.  What you need to do is write
> > postLoginFilter that maps to the j_security_check url.
> >
> > In doFilter method, you can write your post login code after
> > j_security_check done is work.
> >
> > Something like:
> > public void doFilter(.....)
> >
> > // let the j_security_check to do it's work
> > chain.doFilter(request, response)
> >
> > // do you post login stuff here
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dipak Parmar
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Ruegger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:53 AM
> > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Subject: handling form based authentication w/ remember-me cookie
> >
> >
> > I am using Struts and building a logon page to do Form-based
> authentication
> > under Tomcat. I want to also have a checkbox for the user to check that
> says
> > "remember me" so that I can send them a cookie.  I'm not sure how to
> > "intercept"
> > the form values because I have to post to j_security_check. How can I get
> > the
> > check-box value, set up the cookie, and send them to j_security_check with
> > struts?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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