hi Barry, if you want to customize your error page or login page you had better use form based authentication. below is a website where you can get enough information about that:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/08/06/webform.html?page=1 hope it helps :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry L. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:19 PM Subject: Basic Authentication error page? [repost] > OS: W2K > Tomcat: 4.0 > > I have been searching through the Tomcat and Sun docs to try to find out if > it is possible to have an error page with BASIC authentication. I would > prefer to show a custom error page when a user mistypes there username or > password, rather than general the ERROR 401 page. > > I know this is possible with Apache, but how do I do it with Tomcat? > > In my web.xml I have: > <security-constraint> > <web-resource-collection> > <web-resource-name>inqadmin</web-resource-name> > <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern> > </web-resource-collection> > <auth-constraint> > <role-name>inqadmin</role-name> > </auth-constraint> > </security-constraint> > > <login-config> > <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method> > <realm-name>Test</realm-name> > </login-config> > > I can find no docs that say anything about having a <error-page> within the > <login-config>. > I have tryed this both in and outside of the <login-config>: > <error-page> > <error-code>401</error-code> > <location>/errors/401.html</location> > </error-page> > > But I get a error 500. > > Thanks for your time, > Barry > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
