It worked when I use the secure screen class rather than the Login class
to authenticate.

thanks
michael





>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:42, you wrote:
>>> I am asking a slightly different question (which has been asked
>>> before).
>>>
>>> I want to direct a user to a page that is passed on to him, via an
>>> email, say.
>>>
>>> http://somewhere.com/somecomp/servlet/somecomp/SOME.vm,id?1
>>
>> I don't really understand what you are asking, but I think you are
>> saying that you want to email a link to a secure page to someone who
>> must log in before viewing the page.
>>
>>> I would imagine that this link is passed on as a parameter and read
>>> by a .class file, then passon to Velocity via
>>> context.put("somelink", "the_above_link"); then, read by the Login.vm
>>> file using:
>>>
>>> <form method="post"
>>> action="$link.setAction("Login").setPage($the_above_link)">
>>>
>>> 1. I don't know which .java file I should use to read the link.
>>
>> For security you can either write your own session validator class or
>> do your security checks in your screen class in the isAuthorized()
>> method (the screen class in your example above would either be
>> SOME.java or Default.java) and redirect the user to your login
>> template.
>>
>>> 2. in the file that reads this link, what should be put in place of
>>> the XXXX
>>>
>>>  String link = data.getParameters().getString("XXXX");
>>
>> Assuming you are doing your security checks in your screen class, try
>> the following code...
>>
>>   context.put("nextTemplate",
>>               data.getScreenTemplate().replace('/',','));
>>
>> ... you can then access this from your login template as
>> $nextTemplate.
>>
>> Note, you will also need to pass any request parameters across to the
>> screen you are redirecting to.
>>
>>> 3. setAction("Login").setPage($YYY) in the Form field does not seem
>>> to work, $YYY is not accepted, a String (i.e. Somefile.vm) is OK.
>>
>> Try setAction("Login").setPage("$YYY") instead.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- Rodney
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