I beleive this problem is covered in section 6.8 of Tomcat 3.2.3's doc/readme file. The problem is still present in Tomcat 3.3. I plan to try to fix this later in Tomcat 3.3.1.
Cheers, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 6:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: problem with form based authentication (tomcat 3.2.3) > > > Wrote a small test servlet which works fine > using JDBC realm and BASIC authentication. > > But when I replace BASIC with FORM > (with LoginForm.html & LoginError.html files > inside the servlet) I get: > > http://localhost/testservlet/j_security_check > > (my servlet call is: > http://localhost/testservlet/servlet/testserv) > > > The web.xml looks as follows: > ---------------------------------------------------------- > <servlet> > <servlet-name>testserv</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>testservlet.TestServlet</servlet-class> > </servlet> > > <security-constraint> > <web-resource-collection> > <web-resource-name>Test Servlet</web-resource-name> > <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> > </web-resource-collection> > <auth-constraint> > <role-name>web_user</role-name> > </auth-constraint> > </security-constraint> > > <login-config> > <!-- > <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method> > <realm-name>ClaroLogic</realm-name> > --> > <auth-method>FORM</auth-method> > <form-login-config> > <form-login-page>/LoginForm.html</form-login-page> > <form-error-page>/LoginError.html</form-error-page> > </form-login-config> > </login-config> > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > I recollect some mention of problems when the > LoginForm.html and LoginError.html are placed inside > the servlet itself. Is this true? > > If yes, where do I put it and how would the corresponding > entry in the above web.xml file look. > > > PS: I have tried to used Tomcat 4.0.1 but could not, because > the code used the Driver class to get the connection rather than > DriverManager. With Coludscape, this tends to result in a null > connection. > > I've had little luck with Cloudscape sice Informix themselves seems > to treat it as a step-child nowadays. > > Cheers > -raj >
