Re: [TC 5.0.25] Posting directly to j_security_check

2007-11-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob, Rob Hunt wrote: > I have a form on a page that posts directly to j_security_check: As others have pointed out, you can't do that. If you use a separate authentication mechanism, you can. See the securityfilter project (http://securityfilter.sou

Re: [TC 5.0.25] Posting directly to j_security_check

2007-11-15 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
David Smith wrote: j_security_check should never be directly referenced. Clients should be requesting a secured resource. Tomcat then saves the request and forwards the client to the login page (specified in WEB-INF/web.xml) which in turn submit's authentication information to j_security_che

Re: [TC 5.0.25] Posting directly to j_security_check

2007-11-15 Thread David Smith
j_security_check should never be directly referenced. Clients should be requesting a secured resource. Tomcat then saves the request and forwards the client to the login page (specified in WEB-INF/web.xml) which in turn submit's authentication information to j_security_check. Then tomcat res

[TC 5.0.25] Posting directly to j_security_check

2007-11-15 Thread Rob Hunt
I have a form on a page that posts directly to j_security_check: http://www.site.com/index.htm https://secure.site.com/j_security_check";> When the POST request is received by secure.site.com, it kicks back a 408 response code and this message: "The time allowed for