I am having difficulty with authentication of user levels. I have to kinds of users "user" and "administrators".
What we did in mySQL db is make a user table and in it, a "level" column is placed containing whether a user is "administrator" or not. there's no problem with this actually (I just wrote the situation and setup). *Now, I want the server to send a 403 response to non-administrative personnel accessing some secured places in our site.* How can I do this?(Or is this possible? I have no idea actually..) I have a userBean.java that contains all user informations from database. I made this in my execute method in Action class. (Something Like this) execute(response, request, form....){ UserActionForm uaf = (UserActionForm) form; UserBean userbean = new UserBean(); * if (userbean.getlevel().equals("user")){ response.sendError(SC_FORBIDDEN); } * return mapping.findForward....("Sucess"); } this code does not compile..sendError() expects int value. I tried sendError(403) but doesn't work. Any Help is Gladly Appreciated! =) God Bless! Ryan Webb from Philippines