On 26/08/2010 02:14, Shaun Senecal wrote: > Thanks for the response Chris. > > You're right. Jetty does a redirect, so on the client-side the > browser sees "/login.html?error=true". Since this isn't happening in > Tomcat, I am unable to retrieve the query string client side. As you > indicated my login page is static html and I am relying on client-side > processing to interpret the query string. I ended up working around > the issue by creating a loginerror.html which is identical to > login.html except that I have added a hidden DIV to the > loginerror.html. I can then search for the hidden DIV to determine if > there was a login failure or not. Not pretty, but it works!
If you're using client-side scripting, why not just set a class or id on the body for each type, instead of the hidden div? p > Thanks > > Shaun > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Christopher Schultz > <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > Shaun, > > On 8/23/2010 4:56 AM, Shaun Senecal wrote: >>>> I'm using FORM authentication, and everything seems to be working >>>> (logins are accepted, etc), except when there was an error the URL >>>> changes in the users browser to point to j_security_check. > > This is expected. > >>>> The >>>> contents of the redirect to j_security_check contains login.html, so >>>> the user is able to login as expected, but my "error=true" query >>>> string is not passed along. > > How are you checking? If you are forwarding to a .html page, you > probably don't have any dynamic content in there, and therefore have no > options for checking for things like request parameters. > >>>> Is there something obvious I am doing >>>> wrong here? I got it working under Jetty as a sanity test, but I need >>>> to get it working in Tomcat too... > > It's possible that Jetty performs a redirect (to login.html?error=true) > during a failed login and Tomcat performs a forward, which is entirely > server-side. The result is that the client never sees the "error=true" > and therefore only server-side components will be able to see it. > > -chris >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
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