Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-10 Thread Tim Funk
wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tim Funk wrote: Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 21:15:12 -0500 From: Tim Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Authentication and Filters Is there a chance (or worthwhile) that in Servlet API 2.5

RE: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-10 Thread Jacob Hookom
AM | To: Tomcat Users List | Subject: Re: Authentication and Filters | | I meant 2.5 since changes to 2.4 are closed from my position in the dev | community. | | My point is only the incoming request is protected by the security | constraint in web.xml. It may be nice to allow the programmer

RE: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-10 Thread Cox, Charlie
' Subject: RE: Authentication and Filters Authentication aside, does the servlet container work such that an include or RD operation has the option of passing through the filter? If so, as of which release? Best Regards, Jacob | -Original Message- | From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-10 Thread Tim Funk
Filters are only performed on the incoming request. So the filter chain is executed once and only once per request. There is an option in the 2.4 Servlet API to allow filter chains to be invoked on .includes() and .forwards(). See section 6.2.5 of the Servlet 2.4 Spec for more details. Tomcat

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-10 Thread AAron nAAs
my:include page=/code.html/ Included file ends here /body /html -AAron From: Tim Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Authentication and Filters Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:52:29 -0500 Filters are only performed

RE: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-10 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jacob Hookom wrote: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:37:06 -0600 From: Jacob Hookom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tomcat Users List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Authentication and Filters Authentication aside, does the servlet

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-09 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jeffrey Winter wrote: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:25:37 -0500 From: Jeffrey Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Authentication and Filters I am using a Filter to do some URL rewriting.

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Winter
A key rule to remember is that security constraints are applied *only* on the original URL requested by the client -- not on RequestDispatcher calls. I would bet you probably have /resource/* protected, but you'll likely want to protect /user/* as well. Thanks, this is a great help. You're

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Winter
A key rule to remember is that security constraints are applied *only* on the original URL requested by the client -- not on RequestDispatcher calls. On last thing, is this a part of the servlet spec, or is it left unstated and this is just Tomcat's particular implementation? Thanks -- To

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-09 Thread Tim Funk
Is there a chance (or worthwhile) that in Servlet API 2.5 a developer could check if an obtained RequestDispatcher would violate a security constraint in web.xml? For example the following new method: RequestDispatcher.isAuthorized() Returns true if the RequestDispatcher's url passes the

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-09 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jeffrey Winter wrote: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:12:06 -0500 From: Jeffrey Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Authentication and Filters A key rule to remember is that security

Re: Authentication and Filters

2003-01-09 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tim Funk wrote: Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 21:15:12 -0500 From: Tim Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Authentication and Filters Is there a chance (or worthwhile) that in Servlet API