Try Forwarding the request intstead... if the origional request was a POST then the forwarded one will be as well. Matt Goss David Wall wrote: > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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