interesting suggestion, but in my case the extra field is not related to the
username. i would like to have a field where the user indicates on what type
of device he/she works, so we can offer the appropriate stylesheet.
On Thursday 13 December 2007 13:00, David Delbecq wrote:
> Or have the username in a hidden field and have javascript build it from
> to fields.
>
> example:
> j_username=Domain\\user
> j_password=*****
>
> Most pragmatic way imho. javascript disabled user could still enter the
> \\ manually :)
>
> En l'instant précis du 13/12/07 12:51, Tim Funk s'exprimait en ces termes:
> > In form based authentication - you have no access to the processor
> > other than your suggestion of overriding authenticate() in
> > FormAuthenticator.
> >
> > Depending on the purpose of the field you could always perform a
> > kludge of setting the 3rd value in a cookie and have a filter check
> > for hte cookie to perform any extra work you need. (Somehow - I doubt
> > that will work)
> >
> > -Tim
> >
> > dirk ooms wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to have an extra field in my form-based login page, but
> >> I'm wondering how I can retrieve the value of that extra field within
> >> my application (request.getParameter("blabla") does not work).
> >>
> >> I searched the web and a suggestion was to override authenticate() in
> >> FormAuthenticator. But I'm wondering how I tell the container to use
> >> my version of authenticate()?
> >>
> >> Are there other ways? This looks like something obvious, but after
> >> searching for a couple of hours, I haven't found a clear answer to
> >> this issue.
> >
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