FORM authentication behaves like BASIC authentication....

2009-01-15 Thread Javabeat
Hi, anyone come across the situation where a webapp is coded to use FORM based authentication but behaves as if it was using BASIC authentication i.e OS username/password dialog pops up instead of the redirection to the login form. The web.xml is very basic so i'm almost thinking its something in

Re: Tomcat caching of static resources?

2008-12-11 Thread Javabeat
same applies on Firefox though, there may well be issues in IE as always but i'm not convinced this is the core problem here. Gregor Schneider wrote: > > Bill, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The article is referring to the fact that Tomcat ad

Re: Tomcat caching of static resources?

2008-12-11 Thread Javabeat
The problem however is that i'm using a remote shared host. Whilst this gives me quite a lot of configuration potential i doubt it would allow me to setup Apache and adaptors etc. In a 'real production environment' this would very much be a preferred choice. awarnier wrote: > > As a heretic pos

Re: Tomcat caching of static resources?

2008-12-11 Thread Javabeat
I agree that i dont think the 'in memory' Tomcat solutions is what i'm currently after, its very much a Tomcat 'heading stamp' issue i think. Interesting point you raise though regarding pushing the statics to an external server. Not ideal from a deployment perspective but that would certainly sol

RE: Tomcat caching of static resources?

2008-12-11 Thread Javabeat
Thanks Chuck for that. Perhaps my use of words was a little misleading. I guess what i was trying to say was that the response returned by Tomcat i.e expiry date etc was not conductive to caching for clients. In terms of headers, i dont want to cache 'pages as the data is very transient. What i di