Hello All, Here is my scenario. I have Tomcat 3.2.4 running on IIS 5.0
I have an html page as my entrance to the website. (http://www.domainname.com/index.html) On this site is a form to login, with you user name and password. When the user clicks submit, they get sent to a servlet that I wrote. This servlet verify's their username and password, and should re-direct them to a certain pace depending on who they are. If I use response.sendRedirect(site); it sends them to the right webpage, but it doesn't seem like the session is created. I test the page to see if there is a valid session, and I get a Null Pointer. Here is what Im doing there. if (userSesson.getValue("userName") == null) { // redirect them to login because the session isn't valid } else { // display the page.. } If I use the rd.forward() method they never get re-directed anywhere Here is my doPost() code... String error = null, site = ("/index.html"); ServletConfig servletConfig = null; ServletContext servletContext = null; RequestDispatcher rd = null; public void doPost (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { // Get the current session object, create one if necessary HttpSession userSession = request.getSession(true); if (Authenticate.verifyUsername(request.getParameter("userName"))) { userSession.putValue("userName", request.getParameter("userName")); if (Authenticate.verifyPassword(request.getParameter("userName"), request.getParameter("password"))) { userSession.putValue("password", request.getParameter("password")); if (Customers.isAcclaim(request.getParameter("userName"))) { if (Customers.isWholesale(request.getParameter("userName"))) { site = "/cocoon/choose.xml"; } else { site = "/cocoon/acclaim/index.xml"; } } else { if (Customers.isWholesale(request.getParameter("userName"))) { site = "/cocoon/yCust/index.xml"; } else { site = "/cocoon/choose.xml"; } } } else { error = "We could not match your Password with your Username, Please re-enter your login information."; userSession.invalidate(); } } else { error = "We could not verify your Username, Please re-enter your login information."; userSession.invalidate(); } servletConfig = getServletConfig(); servletContext = servletConfig.getServletContext(); rd = servletContext.getRequestDispatcher(site); rd.forward(request, response); } What I want to do is this. I want my servlet to re-direct them to the proper page while passing my session to it, so I can verify it in my xml pages. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Anthony Anthony Diodato Webmaster - IT Prophet 21, Inc. 19 West College Avenue Yardley, PA 19067 1-800-776-7438, ext. 4600 Fax: 215-321-8014 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.p21.com/ Prophet 21 -- Powering the Distribution Industry for the Digital Age For the latest press releases from Prophet 21 -- http://www.p21.com/press/press.html * 2/12/2001 - Trading Partner Connect Offers Enterprise-to-Enterprise (E2E) Commerce * 2/9/2001 -- Prophet 21 CommerceCenter 8.0 is Now Available * 2/9/2001 -- Prophet 21 Upgrades and Enhances Prophet 21 Acclaim For the latest articles on Prophet 21 http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/id/archives/2001/ind010.02/techupdate. htm http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/id/develop/techmain01.1.htm http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/id/archives/2000/ind1201/news.htm Visit our website at http://www.p21.com/visit The information in this e-mail is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, action taken, or action omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>