On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alan P Sexton wrote:
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:20:36 +0000 > From: Alan P Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SURVEY] HREF attribute for FormTag > > > Here is a problem which _MIGHT_ benefit from the proposal. I am still > too much of a newbie to be sure but haven't found any discussion of it > in the lists or docs > > I'm using container managed security with form authentication. Because > of the context path prepending problem, I can't use FormTag for > j_security_check but must use HTML <form> instead. This means I can't > use the struts-html tags in the form. I have not been able to get login > error messages handled in the login page in the way I used to when I > depended on programmatic security as per the struts example. > > I would like my login page to have the same look and feel as the rest of > my pages. I have not been able to figure out (yet) how to use tiles for > this page (which I use for the rest of my web app) and have been reduced > to manually simulating my tiles based layout (no great hassle but > annoying). > It's not going to be feasible to use the Struts HTML tags for the form login page even with such an attribute. Among other things: * There is no such thing as a form bean associated with the form login page, so you can't use the automatic redisplay functionality anyway. * The servlet spec *requires* the use of "j_security_check" as the submitted-to URL, and "j_username"/"j_password" as the field names. There isn't much value add in using the Struts tag equivalents in these things, even if you could. > Perhaps with some guru magic all this is possible but I suspect that the > HREF attribute might help. > I don't see how the ability to use Tiles for layout management of this page is connected to use of the <html:form> tag with an "href". > Cheers, > > Alan Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
