Accessing HttpServletRequest

[alringer]

I am tying to integrate simpleCaptcha vs. jCaptcha (which looks horrible) and I need to access a key the capthca servlet puts in the user session.

Being new to Seam I am not sure how to get at the HttpServletRequest.

[junkie]

I had written this here, gives you what you need (getRequest()) and some more useful stuff:

public class JSFUtil {    
  
  private static ResourceBundle getBundle() {
    FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
    UIViewRoot uiRoot = ctx.getViewRoot();
    Locale locale = uiRoot.getLocale();
    ClassLoader ldr = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
    return ResourceBundle.getBundle(ctx.getApplication().getMessageBundle(), locale, ldr);
  }
  
  public static String getStringFromBundle(String key) {
    ResourceBundle bundle = getBundle();
    return bundle.getString(key);
  }
  
  public static void setViewRootLocale(Locale locale){
    FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
    UIViewRoot uiRoot = ctx.getViewRoot();
    uiRoot.setLocale(locale);
  }
  
  public static HttpServletRequest getRequest() {    
    return (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
  }
  
  public static String getRequestServerName(){    
    return getRequest().getServerName();
  } 
  
  public static String getRequestURI(){
    return getRequest().getRequestURI();
  }
  
  public static String getRequestQueryString(){
    return getRequest().getQueryString();
  }
  
  public static Locale getRequestLocale(){
    return getRequest().getLocale();
  }
  
  public static String getRequestUserAgent(){
    return getRequest().getHeader("User-Agent");
  }
  
  /** switches from HTTP to HTTPS or back
   *  if used to go from HTTPS to HTTP older browsers (like IE 6) could complain
   *  so use carefully
   */
  public static void switchHTTPSecurity() throws IOException{
    HttpServletRequest req = getRequest();
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    if (req.isSecure())
      sb.append("http://");
    else
      sb.append("https://");
    sb.append(req.getServerName()).append(req.getRequestURI());
    if (req.getQueryString() != null)
      sb.append("?").append(req.getQueryString());
    JSFUtil.sendRedirect(sb.toString());
  }
    
  public static void sendRedirect(String URL) throws IOException {      
    HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getResponse();
    FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().responseComplete();
    response.sendRedirect(URL);    
  }
  
  public static void setPageNotFound() throws IOException {  
    HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getResponse();
    response.setStatus(response.SC_NOT_FOUND);
  }
    
}

[pmuir]

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