Mats Nyberg wrote: > > > Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 10 May 2002, Mats Nyberg wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 20:00:51 +0200 >>> From: Mats Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: automatic login >>> >>> locking myself in is no problem; this is an app running on a collegue's >>> (peter antman @ jboss) heavily patched version of a JBoss 2.something >>> loaded with tomcat and jboss dependencies. >>> >>> do you know the internals of the accessinterceptor/authentification >>> process >>> in tomcat? >>> >> >> I'd *better* know it, because I wrote it ... :-) >> > straight to the source, huh > ;) > >> >> >> Look in package org.apache.catalina.authenticator in the Tomcat source >> code for the implementation classes that implement the various login >> methods. > > using 3.2, dude > :( > >> You'll need to understand quite a bit about Tomcat's internal >> architecture for this to work > > I do > >> -- there are some UML diagrams and such >> stuff in the "Catalina Documentation" part of the tomcat-docs webapp. >> >> However, I'm afraid that I'm not going to be able to assist you any, due >> to time constraints. >> > hey, i know i'm on a seller's market here ;) > > got an idea, though. > I'll be back > > by the way, vincenzo: your idea worked - will write HOWTO for the list
No doubt Mats ;) we use it in a production site :) The only potential flaw is that if you look in your browser's cache you may find the authentication form filled with username and password and that's a problem in a shared computer environment. This happens only if you perform your redirect in jsp page, maybe server-side redirecting can avoid this. Didn't try. > >> >> >> Craig >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude of it. -- Calvin ----------------------------------------------------- Vincenzo Marchese ARSRETIA S.r.l. Via D. Sansotta, 97 00144 Roma (IT) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +39 06 52270097 Fax: +39 06 52272313 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
