Hello
I have a request from a user of my portal to automatically log in the user into the portal and then take them to a particular page say p1.jsp .

The user will pass a param in the request "next_url=UserManager/UserListPortletWindow?action=2&operation=view_reg_code"

Since I use a DatabaseLoginModule I am able to to the authenticate the user by having his link point to

/portal/j_security_check?&j_username=xyz&j_password=y&next_url=above string

This works fine, the user is logged in, but the user is brought to the home page or default page specified in the web.xml.

How do I redirect or forward the request to the next_url after successfully authenticating him.

I tried to put in the following code in the commit() method of the DatabaseLoginModule in a failed attempt to forward the request

public boolean commit() throws LoginException {
 boolean result = super.commit();

 try{
 HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) PolicyContext.getContext(REQUEST_CONTEXT);

 RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("/users");
 HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) PolicyContext.getContext("javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse");
 rd.forward(request, response);
 } catch (Exception e) {
 log.error("Caught Exception while putting MyRackspaceUser in session!", e);
 }
 return result;
}

this fails because there is no such context as "javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse"

There does not seem to be a way to redirect the request.

Is there any way to redirect/forward the user to a specific page in the portal right after login.

Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you so much.

Vijay