When you get a null remote user, return a http 401 Authorisation Required
error from your servlet, this will cause the web server to effectively ask
the browser for authentication which will cause the user to be prompted
with a dialog for username and password. The servlet will then be called
again and you will have the username (which must be a valid user for the
web server). I then validate the username against my own database tables
to determine the content I'm willing to show the particular user....
cheers
Tony
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>It seems that the getRemoteUser() always returns null. It is unable to get
the login userid from the NT system.
I have tested the SnoopServlet example included in jsdk2.0 and snoop.jsp
sample in gunjsp-0.9.8.
They both return null for userid.
I am using Apache web server 1.3.4, JServ 1.0b and jsdk2.0 and jdk1.1.6. on
Windows NT.
In Microsoft IIS / ASP, it is a simple line : userid =
Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_USER")
to get the userid from NT system as user login.
Weigen
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