If you map the filter to the same url-pattern as your protected resource, it will be called immediately after someone authenticates.
HTH, Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Ralf Lorenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:59 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: form based authentication problem > > > thanks, that's exactly the solution i discussed right now > with some other > developers of my company. > the question with the filter is whether it is called when the > container > forwards or redirects to the > claimed resource after the authentication is done? > theoretically i'd say yes > but who knows? > try and error i guess! > ralf > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barney Hamish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:35 PM > Subject: RE: form based authentication problem > > > > I did something like that using struts. I wrote a base > action class which > > all my other action classes extended. The base class performs any > > initialization (initializing objects in the session etc) as > required. > > > > If you don't want to use struts you might consider using a filter. > > Hamish > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ralf Lorenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:13 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: form based authentication problem > > > > > > > > > guess that was to much of description last time! next try > > > > > > can anybody tell me how to do some action, say put an object > > > in the session > > > or/and update a list in the servlet context directly after a > > > user was logged > > > in successfully via form-based authentication (context) with > > > a jdbc-realm? > > > > > > ralf > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]