Re: Validation lists and Apache

David,

You bring up an interesting concept.  I need to think this one through.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com>
To: <java400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Validation lists and Apache


> Mike,
>
> I held off responding because the solution I used is specific to Tomcat
>
> and authenticates to an LDAP server. To do this I created a realm
> that authenticates to an LDAP server. One thing to keep in mind is
> that a user is only challenged when they try to access a protected
> resource. The other thing I did was use a login form, which allows
> you to get information about the login and store it with the session.
>
> To configure a realm, you have to specify it at the desired level in
> your sever.xml file. You also need to add a reference to this
> realm and your login form as a login-config element in any
> web.xml file associated with this realm.
>
> If you think this would work for you, I could help you through
> the details. I am not sure how this applies to WebSphere, but
> it is all based on Servlet 2.3 specifications so there should be
> something similar.
>
> David Morris
>
> >>> msilvers@HBS-INC.COM 07/31/02 01:11PM >>>
> All,
>
> I need to determine which validation list the user used to sign in
> with
> using a servlet.  I was looking at the HttpRequest attributes and
> methods,
> but I can not determine anything there.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> What I am trying to accomplish here is to have a common control servlet
> to
> work with different levels of authorization.  A customer can only
> receive
> specific information when they sign in this site where a Customer
> Service
> Representative can receive more information.  I was going to try and
> determine their level of authority by determining which validation list
> was
> used for their signin.  There are different validation lists for
> different
> levels of authorization for other reasons and I wanted to use this as
> my
> determination.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
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