Auto Login

[moatas]

Using FORM based authentication, is it possible to 'auto login' by providing the j_username and j_password request variables like this?

http://some.host/webapp/protected/page.jsp?j_username=foo&j_password=bar ?

It does not appear to work. I am trying JBoss 246-Tomcat 4.0.3, but can just as easily try with Jetty. With Tomcat, I think I would have to rewrite FormAuthenticator.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Jim

[moatas]

I created my own Authenticator call AutoLoginFormAuthenticator which intercepts a protected request looking for the j_username and j_password, and another flag indicating whether or not autologin should be performed.

So the usrl would look like this:

http://some.host/protected/page.jsp?j_username=foo&j_password=bar&auto_login=true

Is this something that might be useful to work back into the core catalina code?

Jim

[matthias]

Hi Jim

i am interested in the solution, you have found.
Could you show, how you solved the problem ?

Regards Matthias