Well, there you go Martin :) Tim, is this something peculiar to Tomcat that doesn't allow it? As I mentioned in my previous post, I in fact do this in an app running on Websphere. Or, maybe its a case of Websphere letting me do something it really shouldn't?
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, February 2, 2006 2:53 pm, Tim Funk said: > You can't install a filter on j_security_check > > -Tim > > Martin Dubuc wrote: > >> I am using form based authentication in my application. I would like >> to know if it is possible to install a Servlet filter on >> j_security_check. >> >> I have tried to install one, but it never gets invoked. Here is my >> filter definition in application web.xml: >> >> <filter> >> <filter-name>LoginFilter</filter-name> >> <filter-class>LoginFilter</filter-class> >> <description>Performs pre-login and post-login >> operation</description> >> </filter> >> >> <filter-mapping> >> <filter-name>LoginFilter</filter-name> >> <url-pattern>/j_security_check</url-pattern> >> </filter-mapping> >> >> I have some logs in the doFilter function. It seems like doFilter >> never gets called. However, if I set the url-pattern property to /*, >> doFilter gets called while rendering pages, but doesn't seem to be >> invoked from j_security_check. >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
