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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by joelsherriff <jo...@comcast.net> on 2005/04/26 01:16:15 UTC
Any better way to do this?
I want to setup what is basically a blog server - so that user's must login
and can then access
their personal blog, but nobody elses. I think I can do this using a
servlet filter to trap requests to the
blog pages, lookup the user's blog page url using the session info, and
modify the request to point
to his/her own blog, regardless of what blog they initially requested.
Seems like there ought to be a better way but I'm pretty new to tomcat so
.... is there?
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Re: Any better way to do this?
Posted by joelsherriff <jo...@comcast.net>.
Thanks for the input. Very appreciated. There seem to be so many
configuration options in tomcat that I wasn't
sure if I was trying to use filters when something else was already there
waiting for me to use.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Hartung" <wi...@msoft.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Any better way to do this?
> > From: "joelsherriff" <jo...@comcast.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:16 PM
>
> > I want to setup what is basically a blog server - so that user's must
> login
> > and can then access
> > their personal blog, but nobody elses. I think I can do this using a
> > servlet filter to trap requests to the
> > blog pages, lookup the user's blog page url using the session info, and
> > modify the request to point
> > to his/her own blog, regardless of what blog they initially requested.
> >
> > Seems like there ought to be a better way but I'm pretty new to tomcat
so
> > .... is there?
>
> Actually that's a perfect way to do it. You simply write the filter,
install
> it, and be done with it. The challenge being integrating with the Blog
> software's registration system, perhaps, but the beauty of the system is
> that the blogging servlets/JSPs/etc. are totally ignorant of the change,
and
> you can move ahead with very little knowledge of how the blogging software
> works or is configured. It's a nice, non-invasive system to do exactly
what
> you want.
>
> Regards,
>
> Will Hartung
> (willh@msoft.com)
>
>
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Re: Any better way to do this?
Posted by Will Hartung <wi...@msoft.com>.
> From: "joelsherriff" <jo...@comcast.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:16 PM
> I want to setup what is basically a blog server - so that user's must
login
> and can then access
> their personal blog, but nobody elses. I think I can do this using a
> servlet filter to trap requests to the
> blog pages, lookup the user's blog page url using the session info, and
> modify the request to point
> to his/her own blog, regardless of what blog they initially requested.
>
> Seems like there ought to be a better way but I'm pretty new to tomcat so
> .... is there?
Actually that's a perfect way to do it. You simply write the filter, install
it, and be done with it. The challenge being integrating with the Blog
software's registration system, perhaps, but the beauty of the system is
that the blogging servlets/JSPs/etc. are totally ignorant of the change, and
you can move ahead with very little knowledge of how the blogging software
works or is configured. It's a nice, non-invasive system to do exactly what
you want.
Regards,
Will Hartung
(willh@msoft.com)
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