RE: form auth: how to get user name if login was incorrect

[Craig R. McClanahan]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Randy Layman wrote:

> 
>       I believe that its in the seesion.getAttribute("j_username").  I
> might be wrong about that (I have modified my local copy of that code.  The
> code now does this, but I believe that it originally did this.)
> 

That's specific to the way that one particular version of Tomcat does
it.  There is no portable way (through the servlet API) to retrieve the
username and password on a failed form-based login.

>       Randy
> 

Craig