Hi,
I'm getting the following exception when I try to access the list of deployed webservices (http://localhost:8080/manager/list) with a user who has non-Latin characters in their user name: java.lang.NullPointerException org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormA uthenticator.java:321) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(FormAuthent icator.java:245) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase .java:523) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102 ) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852) org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http 11Protocol.java:588) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) I'm running Tomcat and the browser (Firefox) all on my development PC with Windows XP, I've tried the same scenario, with the same results, on the following Tomcat versions 5.5.23, 5.5.29 and 6.0.26 all on Java 1.6.0_12. My username and passwords are stored in a Postgres database and I have the realm configured to access my database and tables in my server.xml, thus: <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" driverName="org.postgresql.Driver" connectionURL="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/uca" connectionName="blah" connectionPassword="blah" userTable="mg_users" userNameCol="username" userCredCol="password" userRoleTable="mg_roles" roleNameCol="role" /> This only occurs when I add the following valve to /conf/context.xml <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator" characterEncoding="UTF-8" /> If I do not add the valve then Tomcat will not authenticate any attempt to access the list page with a user name containing non-Latin characters, it works perfectly if the user name contains only Latin characters. Rationale behind this approach: my application consisting of a number of war files, an html page and some jsp pages. A user logs in via a html page which is submitted as a form. Now this works correctly for non-Latin characters when I configure the context.xml in the application's META-INF directory with the same valve, hence why I was trying to set it for all applications in the hope that this would allow the manager list to be retrieved. If I explicitly set the valve just for the manager application I get the same exception. Any pointers to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated. Chris Rafferty Team Leader, Sidonis e: <mailto:carol.hopper...@sidonis.com> chris.raffe...@sidonis.com w: <http://www.sidonis.com/> www.sidonis.com
