I'm not 100% sure this is going to help you much but it may be worthy of consideration if you're going to be implementing this kind of thing often.
Have you looked at the Jakarta STRUTS framework? There's a whole lot of time-saving functionality built in, especially with regard to forms: validation, repopulation of form fields etc. In your case you could store the values the client enters in a bean. Store the bean in the client's session and have the JSP page with your form check for the existence of the bean attribute when its invoked. As a work around to the client clicking the browsers back button add some meta tags to prevent the page from being cached. Jonathan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pleasant, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:43 AM Subject: Need Solution to authenticated webpages and forms > > I was able to set up basic authentication through tomcat for a directory > my webapps/myapp directory contains file that are open for everyone > my webapps/myapp/admin directory contrains protected pages > > When I use forms in the webapps/myapp directory, hitting the back button on the browser(internet explorer) after submit saves the users data. > > However, when I use a form in the webapps/myapp/admin directory, hitting back button does not save anything. > > I tried it with a very simple form > <form method=post action=test2.jsp> > <input type=text> > <input type=submit value=Go> > </form> > > and it didn't work. > > The form that I am using has a lot of drop down boxes (basic numbers which I created functions with javascript). However, if the user hits submit and comes to a confirmation page then they will have to go back to the form and they wont' be able to, all the data will be lost... unless I create some kind of "back" button but not sure how to handle that with the javascript population of the drop down since javascript and jsp runs on client/server two different places. > > Any solutions for this type of thing? > I opened a bug, but was pointed to another bug and asked to ask this on the group emails > > The other bug said to do this but I don't know where this stuff is suppose to go. Should it be in the webapps/myapp/admin section??? Should I call it admin.xml ? > I tried: > <Context path="/admin" docBase="admin"> > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator" > disableProxyCaching="false" /> > </Context> > but that didn't seem to work at all.. > Please help because.. I'm also a newbie so please don't speak to complicated.. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
