Hi Siong, You should use action mapping and type the action url instead of the jsp url. Something like this : https://www.theserver.com/ActionName.do. Then in your struts-config.xml you can specify the form associated with the action and have validate = true. Something like this:
<action path="/ActionName.do" type="com.class.ActionName" className="com.class.ActionName " name="ActionFormName" validate="true" scope="yourscope" input="/jsp/pageName.jsp"> </action> Regards, Dimitar -----Original Message----- From: Siong Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help on Struts's handling of initial pg request. Hi all.. I was wondering if anyone of you might know the answer to this question: Does the ActionForm's (Form Bean) validate method get invoked if it is an initial request for the page? For example, I'm currently in www.yahoo.com. However, I would like to hit a site in secured server to perform some transactions. I type in https://www.testserver.com/dl.jsp. Upon pressing the return button, the testserver will receive a request for the dl.jsp page. Is there anyway to invoke the validate method in the form bean associated to the dl.jsp? If not, I was wondering if there are any suggestions on how can I validate username and id that was previously stored in a cookie during this initial page request. In other words, how can I make sure that the user requesting for the page has the privilege to view it? Thanks in advance for any help rendered. Cheers! Siong Siong H. Chan Systems Engineer, eBusiness Division MacDonald Dettwiler Add: 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC, Canada V6V 2J3 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (604)231-2150 Fax: (604)278-2533 URL: http://www.mda.ca/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>