Direct access to form-login-page, and to j_security_check

[Chuck Williams <ch...@allthingslocal.com>]

Going to try to ask this a different way...

Is it possible to directly submit information to j_security_check and/or 
to directly access form-login-page, rather than posting form-login-page 
and authenticating with j_security_check only in response to an 
attempted access of a protected page?

I've found quite a few forum threads from 2003 discussing this issue and 
posting various hackish workarounds, but am wondering if Tomcat 5.5 
might have provided a direct solution.  I am already achieving a partial 
solution by linking to a protected page that serves only to redirect 
back to index.jsp to show a personalized view (after authentication).  
However, I would like a cleaner and more complete solution (e.g., 
supporting users who bookmark the login page).

Most importantly I would like to embed my login form directly on 
index.jsp (and every other page of the site) so the user can directly 
login rather than being forced to click a link to get a login page and 
then log in.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help,

Chuck


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