Hi, as far as I know, there is only one possible way to use form based authentication with Tomcat:
- sending a request to a restricted site - getting the login form instead - logging in and getting the restricted site However, the following scenario seems more common in web applications: - having a welcome page that offers a user name and password field - after submitting that form the user gets the index page of the web application It seems to me that there is no way to provide the second scenario with tomcat. Therefore, I ask You whether there is an API call that can verify a username/password combination and create a user session. That kind of api call would be handy in the second scenario as the index page could easily check the given user/pass and send a redirect to the error page if it was wrong or show up the index page if the login succeeded. I know that this kind of functionality could be simulated by implementing a proprietary login mechanism. However, that would mean to throw away the security-constraint mechanisms (web.xml), the built-in user verification (jdbc-realm, ldap,...) and would require every site to check whether the user is logged in or not. If there is no API call to verify user/password then please treat this message as a feature request. Thank You very much, Johann Uhrmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
