Just out of curiosity, but why don't you use the standard servlet provisions
for authentication? Are there things you can do more easily using filters?
I'm just starting to look at what filters can do, so any comments are
welcome.
Marcel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Janmyr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: SV: Problem with Filters and RequestDispatcher in Orion 1.4.5
> SV: Problem with Filters and RequestDispatcher in Orion 1.4.5My filter and
> it's mapping is shown below. Tomcat does not invoke the filter when the
> RequestDispatcher is used.
> Since the RequestDispatcher is internal it would seem that it should not
> invoke the filters. This is however not specified in the Servlet2.3 spec.
>
> As you can see in this configuration the LoginPage is in the protected
> directory. If I move it out everything works properly unless I try to
> include a file from the protected directory. Then the filter is invoked
> again.
> I don't think this is the way it should work.
>
>
> Anders
>
> <filter>
> <filter-name>HtmlLoginFilter</filter-name>
> <filter-class>com.netpuls.servlet.LoginFilter</filter-class>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>loginPage</param-name>
> <param-value>/html/login.jsp</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>failedLoginPage</param-name>
> <param-value>/html/failedLogin.jsp</param-value>
> </init-param>
> <init-param>
> <param-name>loginHandler</param-name>
> <param-value>com.netpuls.np.WebUser</param-value>
> </init-param>
> </filter>
>
> <filter-mapping>
> <filter-name>HtmlLoginFilter</filter-name>
> <url-pattern>/html/*</url-pattern>
> </filter-mapping>
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]För Magnus Rydin
> Skickat: den 23 mars 2001 09:46
> Till: Orion-Interest
> Ämne: SV: Problem with Filters and RequestDispatcher in Orion 1.4.5
>
>
> How does your filter mapping look?
> Does Tomcat ivoke filters on forward/include?
> WR
>
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Anders Janmyr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Skickat: den 23 mars 2001 00:25
> > Till: Orion-Interest
> > Ämne: Problem with Filters and RequestDispatcher in Orion 1.4.5
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to use filters for authenticating users. My filter uses
> > RequestDispatcher.forward to show a login page when the user needs to
> > authenticate himself.
> >
> > This results in the filter beeing invoked again. It seems that the
> > RequestDispatcher in orion (both forward and include) invokes
> > the filter
> > again. Tomcat does not do this. What is the correct behavior?
> > The spec does
> > not say how it should be working.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Anders
> >
> >
>
>
