Hi folks, I am sending a custom error message in my authenticator but it gets removed by the StandardHostValve. This is what I do in my authenticator:
catch (PrivilegedActionException e) { logger.error("Unable to login as the service principal", e.getException()); response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "Unable to login as the service principal"); request.setAttribute(Globals.EXCEPTION_ATTR, e); return false; } The message is not diplayed because in line 282 to 286 the message is killed by: else { // A custom error-page has not been defined for the exception // that was thrown during request processing. Check if an // error-page for error code 500 was specified and if so, // send that page back as the response. response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR); // The response is an error response.setError(); status(request, response); } It seems like this valve does not care if it handles an uncaught exception or a deliberate exception. Can this be fixed without patching the valve? I guess not. I would file a ticket about that: A mere response#isError call would suffice to wrap that behavior and pass the response as is. With best regards, Michael Osipov --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org