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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems that tomcat expects that I already have a session established > before posting the username and password. If I don't already have a > JSESSIONID cookie, j_security_check returns a 408. This behavior adheres to the Servlet Specification. See section 12.5.3. There is no provision for "drive-by" logins. > Unfortunately, I > have another application attempting to talk to this one that requires > that the first thing it does is post credentials to the > j_security_check, so I have no mechanism of hitting another page first > to establish a session. This is non-portable (as you have seen from moving between servlet containers). I think you have a couple of options: 1. Change your remote client to first request the desired secure resource from the server, then submit the credentials with a second request (and you'll be sent to the originally-requested resource, as per the spec) 2. Switch to using securityfilter (which allows drive-bys, and which Mark already plugged) 3. Remove the security constraint from your target service and implement an alternate authentication and authorization strategy (such as checking the credentials yourself in the service) manually > This mechanism worked fine with BEA Weblogic, but it seems that tomcat's > handling of j_security_check is different. Does anyone know of any > options to modify the behavior of j_security_check so that it would just > do the authentication and establish the session in one shot at the time > of the POST request? There are no spec-compliant options. BEA's behavior is an extension to the servlet specification so whatever you do will be container-specific, unless you go outside the container-managed security provider (say, by using something like securityfilter). - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjcE+AACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCrUgCgrHAzHozD9/JjmHRlZE/Jpl2X aucAn2mBQ/dIqkYQo2Nn9bYt8dBPUKM/ =g6J7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
