-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jerry,
On 12/1/11 9:30 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: > I have been using form-based auth for several years. I understand > the challenge concept where TC puts up the pre-defined login page > when the first page requiring auth is requested. But I have a > slightly different situation. I want all of my non-protected pages > (guest-level) to include the id/pw fields at the top of the page. > At any time when the user chooses to go to the protected area of > the site, they enter their id/pw and hit the login button and it > takes them to a page in the protected area. Basically, I want to > bypass the forced login page if the user entered an id/pw unless > obviously the auth failed on the provided id/pw. > > Is there a way to 'force' provide credentials under the covers at > the time the first protected page is requested to get the user > signed on without the intermediate login form appearing? The easiest thing to do it to upgrade to Tomcat 7 which supports servlet spec 3.0. There is a new method in the HttpServletRequest class called "login" that takes a username and password. Just take the username and password from the request (in a servlet you write yourself) and call request.login(). After that, forward (or redirect) the user wherever you want -- some kind of "you're logged-in" landing page. Hope that helps, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7YPZEACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAldwCfQ7XLKMTDwNtNpgWh7anwNUIo P5MAnjoAsGuqxmQsv2jeg+C1gvkmLaRK =Wvqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
