RE: Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0

2010-09-22 Thread Martin O'Shea
It appears to be working. Many thanks. -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: 22 Sep 2010 16 06 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0 On 22/09/2010 07:50, Martin O'Shea wrote: >> Because you haven't told T

Re: Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 22/09/2010 07:50, Martin O'Shea wrote: >> Because you haven't told Tomcat that those pages need to be protected by >> authentication. Do that, and Tomcat will handle the whole process for you. > > But won't the authentication apply to the whole page in question? I'm only > looking to have a use

RE: Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0

2010-09-22 Thread Martin O'Shea
to do something, like post a comment, on the page. -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: 22 Sep 2010 15 43 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0 On 22/09/2010 06:27, Martin O'Shea wrote: > But when I try to login

Re: Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 22/09/2010 06:27, Martin O'Shea wrote: > But when I try to login to Tomcat, I am given message 'Invalid direct > reference to form login page' but do not quite see why. Because you haven't told Tomcat that those pages need to be protected by authentication. Do that, and Tomcat will handle the w

Issue with logging in to Tomcat 6.0

2010-09-22 Thread Martin O'Shea
Hello I have a Java / Tomcat application which creates a cookie for a user when they visit the homepage. This cookie is used to recognize that user on subsequent visits and generate recent lists. These are working well and so far without any type of authentication of the user using Tomcat itself.