On 12 Aug 2002, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> Date: 12 Aug 2002 15:43:58 +0100
> From: Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: user's roles verification
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> I've got (i think) Realms working. I need some advice for good
> practices...
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> My original idea (before hearing about realms and such) was to direct
> all requests for any resource of my webapp to a servlet that would
> verify user roles.
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> Then I was told here that i would run into a lot of problems if I did
> that. And was recomended to check filters and that realms are for this
> purpose.
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> Here is my main question: Using realms, should each jsp verify the role
> of the user trying to access it? Or is there a more elegant way to do
> it, to keep code in jsp minimum and centralize that task?
>
> The verification will have to happen for each one of the pages in my web
> app..
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> Thank you in advance!
>
Using Filters would be for if you want your app to do its own checking.
Using Realms (as provided by Tomcat) implies that you are defining a
<security-constraint> in your web application that says, in essence, "in
order to access the following URLs, the user must be authenticated *and*
possess one of the following roles". If you are using this approach, your
app doesn't have to do a thing (other than define the security constraint
element in web.xml) -- the container does all the work for you.
Craig
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