On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Hillel Bilman wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:27:28 +0200
> From: Hillel Bilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How do you use j_security within in a servlet?
>
> Dear Tomcat Guru's
>
> All the references on j-security_check I can find is from the Servlet 2.3
> Specification and here is all I found:
> <form method=�POST� action=�j_security_check�>
> <input type=�text� name=�j_username�>
> <input type=�password� name=�j_password�>
> </form>
>
> How do you use j_security in a servlet?
You don't.
> The user enters in a form his/her username and password, and then posts the
> response to a servlet. The servlet then passes the user's username and
> password internally to j_security_check and get's back if the authentication
> is correct.
> If the authentication is correct the servlet sends the user to the next page
> and if not the user is sent to an error page.
>
> How do you pass the username and password to j_security_check within a
> servlet?
>
There is currently no portable API that supports programmatic login to the
container-managed security facilities of Tomcat, or any other container.
You might be able to stumble upon something that will work in some
containers (although I don't think you are likely to have any success at
all with Tomcat 4's implementation), but it would be decidedly unportable.
> Thanks for any help
> Hillel
>
Craig McClanahan
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