I'm not 100% sure but I believe this is one of the capabilities they are working on for tomcat 4.0... as for 3.2 and lower... try adding user login information to a database table or something... then set a logged inn cookie and retieve session information from the database. matt David Wall wrote: > > > Try Forwarding the request intstead... if the origional request was a > > POST then the forwarded one will be as well. > > Matt Goss > > >From what I gather from the specs -- and by the lack of this working in > Tomcat -- you cannot forward to another system. RequestDispatcher.forward() > appears to be limited to a particular context only. > > I tried to use the > getServletConfig().getServletContext().getContext(https://another.computer.c > om/) returns 'null' so I guess I can't get a context object for a URL that's > not in the current tomcat server. > > Recall, I've got tomcat running on host1.com and would like to validate a > login while on host1.com, and if all's okay, send them to host2.com. But I > don't want host2.com to allow the user to come if they just typed in the URL > directly, so I was hoping to pass "authorization data" from host1 to host2, > but that info is probably too big to fit directly in a URL, which means that > sendRedirect probably won't work for me. > > Is this even possible? It's a basic scheme of "single signon" so that when > you sign in on host1.com, you can get to host2.com and it's webapp without > having to login again. > > David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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