This seems another aspect of issue http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6279 ... there are some work in progress on that one. There's even a patch, check it out.
Martin -----Original Message----- From: Algirdas P. Veitas [mailto:aveitas@;mail.allesta.com] Sent: 12 November 2002 04:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Servlet Spec interpretation FORM-based authentication Folks, I am running into an issue with FORM-based authentication using 4.1.12 (and 4.0.4). It seems as if the implementation is not in line with the 2.3 Servlet Specification. Specifically, the Servlet Spec states: SRV.12.5.3 Form Base Authentication --snip-- J2EE.12.5.3.1 Login Form Notes --snip-- "If the form based login is invoked because of an HTTP request, the original request parameters must be preserved by the container for use if, on successful authentication, it redirects the call to the requested resource." It seems as if the request parameters are not being preserved by the container. After a successful login the container forwards me to the target URL (a JSP page). The JSP page executes the following code: Enumeration params = request.getParameterNames(); while (params.hasMoreElements()) { String paramKey = (String)params.nextElement(); String paramVal = request.getParameter(paramKey); System.out.println(paramKey + " = " + paramKey); } which I would expect to atleast see printed out: j_username = <some val> j_password = <some val 2> but in fact these request parameters are not printed out and thus not part of the request. A bit of digging in the source revealed that in the method authenticate(HttpRequest,HttpResponse,LoginConfig) of class org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator, the code is executing HttpResponse.sendRedirect(String url) in order to forward the user to the appropriate page. A sendRedirect() will wipe out all of the original request parameters. I think in order to preserve the parameters the sendRedirect() needs to be replaced by HttpRequest.getServletDispatcher().forward(). Has anyone else seen this behavior and is my claim valid? Thanks, Al -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
