Losing authentication information during session

[lduperval]

HI,

I'm experiencing a bizarre issue. I have set up my application to support Web authentication.
When I first start the application and I log on to my account, I display authentication information and I get this:

2005-10-06 10:03:46,296 ERROR [WebTier] FM: CreateAction
2005-10-06 10:03:46,296 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Auth type: FORM
2005-10-06 10:03:46,296 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Principal: power
2005-10-06 10:03:46,296 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Remote User: power

2005-10-06 10:03:50,968 ERROR [WebTier] FM: UpdateAction
2005-10-06 10:03:50,968 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Auth type: null
2005-10-06 10:03:50,968 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Principal: null
2005-10-06 10:03:50,968 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Remote User: null

2005-10-06 10:03:51,109 ERROR [WebTier] FM: RetrieveAction
2005-10-06 10:03:51,109 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Auth type: null
2005-10-06 10:03:51,109 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Principal: null
2005-10-06 10:03:51,109 ERROR [WebTier] FM: Remote User: null

As you can see, the authentication information is lost between the create and the update actions. I have no idea why this happens. Does anyone else know?

This problem only seems to occur when I try to write data to my datastore.

Thanks,

L

[anthony.dupre]

I am having the same problem with JBoss AS 4.0.3
Did you find a remedy?

[lduperval]

Yes. I use struts and it turns out that if the action doesn't appear correctly in the struts.xml and the web.xml, you can see this behaviour.

In my case, I had an action that was called



But in my web.xml it was called /MyComponentDelete.do. By changing the name to /MyComponentDeleteAction.do in web.xml the problem went away. You may be facing a similar issue.

L

[lduperval]

Ugh. It should say:

action path="/MyComponentDeleteAction"
type = "my.DeleteAction"