3 Replies Latest reply on Oct 14, 2005 8:09 AM by lduperval

Losing authentication information during session

lduperval Oct 6, 2005 10:19 AM

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

1. Re: Losing authentication information during session

anthony.dupre Oct 13, 2005 4:33 PM (in response to lduperval)

I am having the same problem with JBoss AS 4.0.3
Did you find a remedy?
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2. Re: Losing authentication information during session

lduperval Oct 14, 2005 8:07 AM (in response to 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
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3. Re: Losing authentication information during session

lduperval Oct 14, 2005 8:09 AM (in response to lduperval)

Ugh. It should say:

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