get UserPrincipal() is null on Tomcat v6.0.33

Hello All, I am unable to get request.getUserPrincipal() or request.getRemoteUser() after successful external authentication. I would greatly appreciate if you could let me know of any configuration on tomcat server to be looked at to get the user principal. Below is the implementation

Re: Running two versions of servlet in same tomcat instance

Aha, that fixes it. Thanks for that explanation, I had completely missed that about the url-pattern being relative to the webapp. I clearly need to un-confuse myself about servlet-mapping. Thank you! -Tod On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:19 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Hi. > > Change the of your test

Re: Users and authentication - how?

18 sep 2011 kl. 17.17 Dola Woolfe wrote: Hi, I'm missing something very basic. I will develop a web application with users and authentication. Surely, there exists a relatively generic approach to this that includes a backend database, new user form and authentication rules! But I can'

Re: Users and authentication - how?

If you find please share it with the rest of us. The only solution I could find is * either use a portal solution which has already implemented a security model like, Jetspeed 2. uportal etc * go with the default models as they are presented in JEE tutorial, basic , form etc. * Implement

Re: Running two versions of servlet in same tomcat instance

Hi. Change the of your test application, to be exactly the same as the of the production application. And invoke it as "http://yourhost.cpy.com/testvsb/";, followed by the same "rest of URL" as what you use for the main application. Brief explanation : the is *relative* to the "webapp na

Re: Links in CSS vs JSPs

Hi. I believe that the problem you are having has nothing to do with Tomcat per se, and everything to do with how absolute and relative link references work in the WWW (or in HTTP/HTML) in general. You need a tutorial on that subject, and to always consider what happens *from the browser's p

Re: Is it safe ?

2011/9/18 PocketA : > > Hi, > > In my web service (using tomcat 7.0) I use a datasource to MySql database > configured under context.xml (in my WEB-INF directory) which looks like the It will be in META-INF, not in WEB-INF. > following : > > > >       type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="100"

Is it safe ?

Hi, In my web service (using tomcat 7.0) I use a datasource to MySql database configured under context.xml (in my WEB-INF directory) which looks like the following : My question is : Is it safe to store user/pass like this ? if not, what is commonly used as a safe approach ? Than

Running two versions of servlet in same tomcat instance

I would like to run two versions of the same servlet (same servlet-class, but with different WAR filename, servlet-name and url-pattern) under a single instance of Tomcat 6.0.33. Basically, the aim is to run both test and production versions of the servlet under the same instance. Better to r

Links in CSS vs JSPs

Hi, We have just changed the way we deploy our webapp. We previously were putting our app into the ROOT folder under webapps , not good I know.We now package the app as a war file called myapp.war and place it into the webapps folder where it explodes into a folder called myapp. Everythingworks exc

RE: Users and authentication - how?

> From: Dola Woolfe [mailto:dolac...@yahoo.com] Subject: Users and > authentication - how? > Surely, there exists a relatively generic approach to this that > includes a backend database, new user form and authentication > rules! But I can't find. Can someone direct me as to where to > start m

Re: Users and authentication - how?

check the j2ee specs on the declaration in web.xml and j_securitycheck form based login servlet for use of jaas in your webapp with the tomcat realm as source of authentication data. best regards, thomas -- Thomas Strauß SRS-Management GmbH HRB 25262 AG Darmstadt Gfs.: Detlev Homilius, Thomas

Users and authentication - how?

Hi, I'm missing something very basic. I will develop a web application with users and authentication. Surely, there exists a relatively generic approach to this that includes a backend database, new user form and authentication rules! But I can't find. Can someone direct me as to where to star

Session management issue with Tomcat

Hello I have a situation where I'm using Tomcat 6.0.26 but the logging in / out of the application is not authenticated via Tomcat's: action='<%= response.encodeURL("j_security_check") %>' > method. The current system allows cookies to store userids which are used to show recent lis

database error

Hello, I had email a while ago asking for help with some errors I was getting with an application that I inherited which was working OK but was getting a few errors after moving it to a new server. I am not a tomcat person in that I do not know a lot about it but do know my way around a serve

problem when testing tomcat

Hello: I am new in learning Tomcat. In turn, I download tomcat source code , build it with Apache-Ant , and test it with JUnit. I use the following commands to build and test Tomcat ant test It seams the test fails as I got the following result: BUILD FAILED