Re: Q: Apache, Tomcat and HTTP Authentication

2000-12-28 Thread Charles Forsythe
Marco wrote: 2 - Apache delegates the servlet to make the authentication. This would be the very best solution, but I suppose it is impossible (could an Apache module implement this feature?) You can do this! Turn off authentication in Apache and implement it in your Servlet. -- Charles

Status of overall Tomcat performance

2000-12-27 Thread Charles Forsythe
I've read several places (see link below) that "Tomcat is the slowest Servlet Engine you can run." Is this still true? What are the prospects for Tomcat 4.0 improving speed? -- Charles http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/11/30/180246threshold=-1pid=45#54

Session != Login

2000-12-16 Thread Charles Forsythe
Andy Nuss wrote: So assuming the site requires "single sign-on". And that there are several segmentations of the site, each of which could be handled by a different web-app: I'm getting the impression that I'm supposed to do some kind of magic with the session cookie. Sessions do not

Re: webapps are useless toys?!

2000-12-15 Thread Charles Forsythe
Andy Nuss" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like each webapp is a separate servlet context, which means that there is no way to share session info among different components of the site, if they are segmented as Webapps. Steve Quail wrote: Two words: cookie database

Re: webapps are useless toys?!

2000-12-15 Thread Charles Forsythe
Andrew Oliver wrote: From my perspective you should have a secure login. if your login is passed from a non-secure area to a secure area there's not really that much purpose in providing the security in the first place. No argument, but who said anything about logging in? Sessions can be

Re: getParameter is NOT a string?

2000-11-18 Thread Charles Forsythe
Miles Daffin wrote: Brett Bergquist wrote: Actually the test that you want is: if (user.compareTo("admin") == 0) { ... } And how is this any different from using "if (user.equals("admin"))"? ... 'compareTo(Object o)' returns an int ...

Re: HTTP PUT

2000-11-17 Thread Charles Forsythe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Tomcat support HTTP PUT? Yes. How? The same way all Servlet containers support HTTP PUT. Try reading a book on Servlet programming. I recommed Jason Hunter's "Java Servlet Programming" from O'Reilly. -- Charles