Other options besides using the RequestProcessor: SAIF Filters
I would suggest the use of filters. In the filters you could check whether the request is for your login resource(assuming thats your first time), and let the user through to the login page w/o the error messages and in case the request is for any other resource, follow the steps in the earlier email. sahil -----Original Message----- From: Asim Ghosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:31 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: redirect to login page with error message on the jsp page this is what i have done but using ActionServlet class. But how to avoid for the first time. Geeta Ramani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or you could write a RequestProcessor and override the processPreprocess method with something like this: HttpSession session = request.getSession(); if ( (session == null) || (session.getFavouriteObjectInSession == null) ) { //use Response object to redirect to login page with error set; } Geeta > -----Original Message----- > From: Asim Ghosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: redirect to login page with error message on the jsp page > > > hello, > > can anybody tell me how to redirect to login page with > error message on the jsp page. It should display error > message "You session has timed out" on the login page. > > in web.xml > > > 30 > > > > > > --------------------------------- > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]