I did, he does not mention managing session between Applet and Servlet, just
how to communicate, which I have managed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Godbey, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Maintaining session (passing cookie!) between Servlet and
Applet
> Check Hunter again. There is an entire chapter on Applet/Servlet
> communication. He did a nice job with it too. Sorry I can't remember the
> chapter number or title. I don't think he refers to the communication as
> tunneling. Goodwill's book does, but Hunter's is much better for this
topic.
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shital Kanitkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Maintaining session (passing cookie!) between Servlet and
> Applet
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Let me start by saying, I am new to servlets(started just last week). I
have
> searched the archives on this topic, and did find the trail, but to no
> definite conclusion. Someone suggested that the book by Jason Hunter would
> have a solution, but I checked up yesterday with no success. In fact all
the
> sources that I have checked, merely mention HTTP tunneling, but avoid the
> session issue. Core Servlets (by SUN!!!) also avoid the topic(i.e.
> Maintaining session (passing cookie!) between Servlet and Applet).
>
> I am using a three tier architecture of Applet ---> Servlet ---> JDBC.
> To connect between Applet - Servlet, I use URLConnection.openConnection(),
> setRequestProperty("CONTENT_TYPE", "application/octet-stream"),
> ObjectOutputStream, and writeObject to pass the serialized object.
>
> I need to know how to maintain a session between an Applet and Servlet. In
> my case, the user logs in and the system allows him features as per his Id
> an administrator will have more features than an ordinary user for e.g.)
>
> One thought that comes to mind is, since I am using Applet, I have live
> objects which can maintain such status can I not? i.e. I can have an
Object
> called User in my Applet with Name, Password, STATUS_LOGGED and privilege
> level as members. after logging in, this user object will be passed to the
> servlet. The servlet validates the user, and sets the privilege level and
> STATUS_LOGGED. The servlets can access this object (obviously by the
Applet
> sending it) to determine the access level. Is this plausible, and are
there
> any drawbacks to this?
>
> If not, what is the best method to use. Please help, I am desperate.
>
> Thanks,
> -Shital
>
>
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