Is there a way to setup a sendRedirect() URL to result in a POST to that
URL? I know I can set the contentType to
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded", but I'm not sure how I'd set the Method
to "POST" and how I'd stuff in a parameter that I'd like to send along.
The root problem I am trying to solve is having a user login page that
exists on www.host.com (running on server 1), which then validates the user
is allowed into the application, and then redirects that user to the one of
several other web servers that has all of that user's data, such as
app1.host.com or app2.host.com, etc.
In our case, because we can have lots of users, we don't want to attempt to
stuff everybody's data into one huge database. We don't want to have a bank
of web servers load balanced in front of a single clustered backend server
fronting a single huge database. So, I'd like to be able to authenticate
the user (that service will have a large number of rows, but they will be
fairly small -- containing a user id, hashed password and the server that
contains the user's data), then redirect them to the correct server. In
doing so, I'd like that server to be able to trust that the user is actually
logged on, so I'd like to pass in some credentials from www.host.com to
app1.host.com with a redirect so that app1 can be sure that the user really
did come there from a valid logon from www.host.com (it's possible that
app1.host.com is not even in the same city as the server where www.host.com
resides).
I don't think that an encrypted, base64 encoded authentication piece will
fit in a standard URL query string because of their length limitation.
Thanks for any thoughts...
David
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