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I have a web application that uses a form login page to protected web resources using Glassfish v2ur1.
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Pretty typical stuff and JAAS authentication works and all that, no complaints.
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But... I need to be able to customize my login.jsp to show a different login message depending on what resource the unauthenticated user was attempting to access.
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I had read about request.getAttribute( "javax.servlet.forward.request_uri" ) which according to the 2.4 Servlet Specication and posts like <a href="
http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=65&t=000686">this one</a> should tell me the original page that was requested.
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Unfortunately, it this always returns null.
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I've tried the following with no luck:
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<li>checking the attributes, parameters, headers and cookies of the request </li>
<li> remote debugged with Eclipse and walked the request object graph</li>
<li>put a filter in place to try and catch the redirection to login.jsp</li>
<li>tried replacing login.jsp with a filter</li>
<li>deployed the application in WAS 6.1.13</li>
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In WAS, the attribute still came back null, but it set a cookie called "WASReqURL" with the value of "/myapp/admin.jsp" . Unfortunately that doesn't help because my target platform is Glassfish.
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Am I missing something or does this just not work?
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