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Jerry,
On 12/1/11 9:30 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote:
> I have been using form-based auth for several years. I understand
> the challenge concept where TC puts up the pre-defined login page
> when the first page requiring auth is requested. But I have a
> slightly different situation. I want all of my non-protected pages
> (guest-level) to include the id/pw fields at the top of the page.
> At any time when the user chooses to go to the protected area of
> the site, they enter their id/pw and hit the login button and it
> takes them to a page in the protected area. Basically, I want to
> bypass the forced login page if the user entered an id/pw unless
> obviously the auth failed on the provided id/pw.
>
> Is there a way to 'force' provide credentials under the covers at
> the time the first protected page is requested to get the user
> signed on without the intermediate login form appearing?
The easiest thing to do it to upgrade to Tomcat 7 which supports
servlet spec 3.0. There is a new method in the HttpServletRequest
class called "login" that takes a username and password.
Just take the username and password from the request (in a servlet you
write yourself) and call request.login(). After that, forward (or
redirect) the user wherever you want -- some kind of "you're
logged-in" landing page.
Hope that helps,
- -chris
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