I'm not exactly sure what's going on. It happens when I try to visit an area of a site that has a security constraint. My user authentication database is in a RDBMS, and I use the JDBC realm to connect to it. I'm never supplied with a prompt to login.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: RE: Null Pointer Exception - would you please take a look? > Is the String you're setting null? I can't say how your driver handles that > case, but maybe it doesn't like it. The jdk javadocs don't mention it. Is > the String too big for the column, does it have weird characters in it? If > you can turn on debugging for the driver, try that. If you have the source, > recompile with debugging on and run in a debugger. If you're desperate > enough, decompile the bytecode, recompile with debugging on, and run it in > the debugger. You didn't hear it from me. > > john > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. > org]On Behalf Of Eddie Bush > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:18 PM > To: Tomcat Users Mailing List > Subject: Null Pointer Exception - would you please take a look? > > > I'm running Tomcat 4.0.1, InterBase 6 Super Server, and Apache 1.3.22. > > Everything works super, until I throw in a JDBC realm and try to connect to > an application protected by a security constraint. When I do, I get the > following exception in my server log: > > 2002-06-17 12:29:28 [org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpRequestHandler] > java.lang.NullPointerException > at interbase.interclient.PreparedStatement.setString(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm.credentials(JDBCRealm.java) > at org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm.authenticate(JDBCRealm.java) > at org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm.authenticate(JDBCRealm.java) > > ... and it continues. I hate to paste it all unless it's necessary to do > so. > > My thought was that someone may have experienced this - or that it may be a > known issue. I checked the docs to ensure that my driver implements > PreparedStatement and setString() ... and it does. It's a JDBC 1.0 driver > though. > > What would be the recommended course of action? I'm not sure what's going > on here for certain, and that's why I'm posting. > > Thanks in Advance! > > Eddie > > > > > -- > 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]>
