Re: "remember me" authentication?

2009-02-27 Thread Pid
Charl Gerber wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does Tomcat provide default support in some way to implement a 'remember me' > feature for form based authentication? This should not be dependent on a > user's browser remembering the username/password, but by a checkbox you can > check/clear on the logon

Re: "remember me" authentication?

2009-02-26 Thread Rusty Wright
Plan C: go for the gusto and use Spring Security (aka Acegi). Learning Spring and Spring Security should keep you busy for the next year or so. Definitely looks good on the resume though. Charl Gerber wrote: Hi everyone, Does Tomcat provide default support in some way to implement a 'remem

Re: "remember me" authentication?

2009-02-26 Thread Ken Bowen
If the app maintains sessions, then the logon page can read the cookie, install some sort of User bean as a session attribute, and then all other pages need only check for the presence of a non- null value under that attribute. This even works for a logon-optional/remember-me (low security) set

Re: "remember me" authentication?

2009-02-26 Thread Serge Fonville
> > Does Tomcat provide default support in some way to implement a 'remember > me' feature for form based authentication? This should not be dependent on a > user's browser remembering the username/password, but by a checkbox you can > check/clear on the logon jsp. > if you google for 'jsp cookie'

RE: "remember me" authentication?

2009-02-26 Thread Anthony J. Biacco
s.com -Original Message- From: Charl Gerber [mailto:charlger...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:39 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: "remember me" authentication? Hi everyone, Does Tomcat provide default support in some way to implement a 'remember m

"remember me" authentication?

2009-02-26 Thread Charl Gerber
Hi everyone, Does Tomcat provide default support in some way to implement a 'remember me' feature for form based authentication? This should not be dependent on a user's browser remembering the username/password, but by a checkbox you can check/clear on the logon jsp. If so, where do I find i