Logon Dialog (Repost)

[James Bell <ja...@eek.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bell" <ja...@eek.com>
To: <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:48 AM
Subject: Logon Dialog


> All
>
> I have protected my struts application with the following directives from
> the web.xml file for the application (see below).  This works fine.  The
> browser displays a popup alert requesting the authentication info.  I have
> left the tomcat session timeout to it's default value (30 mins I think).
I
> can program each page (via the template) in my application to check for
the
> existence of a attribute that the application establishes soon after logon
> and then redirect the browser to the logon page  (logon.do).  If I try
this
> I get a 'request has already been committed' error.  I think the browser
> does not know that the server session has been terminated.  What do I need
> to do, so that the application forces the browser to re-authenticate the
> user on session timeout?
>
> <security-constraint>
>   <web-resource-collection>
>      <web-resource-name>Protected Area</web-resource-name>
>       <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
>       <http-method>DELETE</http-method>
>       <http-method>GET</http-method>
>       <http-method>POST</http-method>
>       <http-method>PUT</http-method>
>   </web-resource-collection>
>   <auth-constraint>
>      <role-name>trader</role-name>
>   </auth-constraint>
> </security-constraint>
> <login-config>
>    <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
>    <realm-name>Trader Realm</realm-name>
> </login-config>
>
>