Thanks Chris. I'll be reading the spec soon enough. Quoting Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin, > > On 10/4/2011 1:12 PM, app...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > Before I look at the specification > > :( > > You should read the spec all the way through IMO. It's not that long, > it's well-written and readable by real humans (and not > techno-lawyers), and very informative. > > > maybe I should clarify my question: can I have the login form > > embedded in different pages? > > You can put your login form wherever you want. Just be aware that the > container is going to intercept any non-authenticated access attempts > to protected resources and forward them to the one-and-only login page > you have configured in <form-login-page>. > > > This way, there would be only one <login-config> element where re- > > direction could resolve the welcome page issue once login is > > achieved. > > > > Each page would then be able to direct each of which calls the > > same login authentication, but > > But what? > > Your login.jsp page can forward/include anything it wants, as long as > none of the resources it tries to include/forward to are protected. > > So, you can sniff the original request URI and serve-up whatever > flavor of login page you want. To see how to do *that*, I'm going to > make you read the spec :) > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk6LRtoACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDdiACgiXTpEM7sH9ttfSzyf2n4e+0v > XsEAmwWgoS08TAcSwMzN5hI8ox+7SnDZ > =Ihdu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------- Visit Pipex Business: The homepage for UK Small Businesses Go to http://www.pipex.co.uk/business-services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
