> why two webapps ? In your web.xml, why not create a security-constraint > element, with web-resource-collection for all your secure pages, in the > user-data-constraint set the transport-guarantee as CONFIDENTIAL. Then > https has to be used for all your secure pages.
this seems to be what I need, thanks. I put the following xml into my web.xml: <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>Client</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>/client/*</url-pattern> </web-resource-collection> <user-data-constraint> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> </security-constraint> does this look correct? I assumed that once this was in following a link such as <a href=client/index.jsp> would automatically use the ssl port or something. Nothing seemed to happen though :-( I just accessed the page as normal. Do I need to define user-roles etc as well maybe? thanks for the help, at least I have something to look further into... =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com