Well, I've not actually tried using a servlet to do a POST to the login page. In my old company, an applet was doing the POST, and the rest came down to clever cookie manipulation. Best of luck with it.
-Neal On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:43 pm, Ken Yee wrote: > FYI, if you access your form based login page (mine is called > login.jsp) directly from a browser, you can submit it and > Tomcat/JBoss complains that "Invalid direct reference to form login > page" but the user is still logged in (I can access a restricted > URL w/o a login prompt), so it looks like that "post to login page > from automatic login" servlet workaround will work, but it may be > depending on a bug in > Tomcat/JBoss... > > > ken > > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The > debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you > feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. > Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. > www.etnus.com > _______________________________________________ > JBoss-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user