As I mentioned on the same thread "MVC problem" (after I had a few false
starts...) you can do your authentication in a single servlet and then
use <%@ page extend="MySecureServlet"%> in your pages so that they all
extend your servlet with the desired functionality.
-Vik
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> "Bragg, Casey" wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to do the following?
> >
> > Let's say a user requests /foo/junk.gif, or /foo/test.jsp.
> >
> > I'd like all requests to /foo/* to first be processed by a servlet.
> > The servlet performs some operation (user authentication specifically).
> > If the servlet processing performs normally, I want the request forwarded to
> > the page actually requested (in the case of .jsp files, the page must be
> > processed by the jsp engine first of course).
> >
> > I've set my Tomcat 3.1 up as defined below. The result is an infinite loop.
> > A request of /foo/junk.gif is redirected to the servlet and then to
> > /foo/junk.gif (which then is redirected to the servlet and then to
> > /foo/junk.gif... and so on).
> >
>
> This question came up earlier today as well. The bottom line is that you cannot
> do what you are after in Tomcat 3.x (which is based on the servlet 2.2
> specification). You can do it by using a Filter from the servlet 2.3 API (which
> Tomcat 4.0 supports). See my expanded explanation on a thread with subject "MVC
> problem".
>
> >
> > Thanks so much for your help!
> >
> > ...Casey
> >
>
> Craig McClanahan
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