MOBI SSO with trusted authentication and form based authentication

Dear All,
I am trying to configure Trusted authentication based SSO FOR MOBI, here are the details:
- SAP BI 4.1 SP04
- Trusted authentication with HTTP header configurred for BI Launchpad and working fine.
Now to have SSO from Mobile, I plan to leverage the existing configuration of BI Launchpad and at Mobile level, I want to use authentication type as TRUSTED_AUTH_FORM, instead of TRUSTED_AUTH_BASIC, with the approach: Trusted authentication with HTTP header.
And
Provide our app users their X502 certs.
1. Will the above approach work ??
2. As per SAP NOTE: 2038165 - SSO using form based trusted auth gives with the SAP BI app for iOS gives error MOB00920 this does not work and is still under investigation from July last year ? So for any community member, has this been found working ??
I would appreciate your valuable inputs.
Regards,
Sarvjot Singh

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to know the difference of the SharePoint three type user authentications.
Windows claims-based authentication uses your existing Windows authentication provider (Active Directory Domain Services [AD DS]) to validate the credentials of connecting clients. Use this authentication to allow AD DS-based accounts access to SharePoint
resources. Authentication methods include NTLM, Kerberos, and Basic.
Forms-based authentication can be used against credentials that are stored in an authentication provider that is available through the ASP.NET interface
SAML token-based authentication in SharePoint 2013 requires coordination with administrators of a claims-based environment, whether it is your own internal environment or a partner environment.
There is a good article contains all the SharePoint Authentications, including how they work and how to configure.
http://sp77.blogspot.com/2014/02/authentication-in-sharepoint-2013_5.html#.VFcyQ_mUfkJ
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
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catch(Exception e)
//catch exception and redirect to page.
else if(user_type.equals("user")&&(access_level.equals("HMO")))
try
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:http://localhost:3306/Health_Management_System","root","");
ps=con.prepareStatement("select staff_id from user_table where username=?and password=?");
ps.setString(1,username);
ps.setString(2,password);
rs=ps.executeQuery();
if(rs.next())
String staff_id=""+rs.getInt(1);
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Health_Management_System","root","");
ps=con.prepareStatement("select * from hmo_staff_table where staff_id=?");
ps.setString(1,staff_id);
rs=ps.executeQuery();
if(rs.next())
//retrieve the values from HMO staff and store them in variables.
//store important variables in user sessions e.g.staff_id,username,place of work for display in the web page.
//redirect to required page.
String first_name=rs.getString("first_name");
String last_name=rs.getString("last_name");
String work_place=rs.getString("place_of_work");
HttpSession session=request.getSession(true);
session.setAttribute("first_name",first_name);
session.setAttribute("last_name",last_name);
session.setAttribute("work_place",work_place);
session.setAttribute("staff_id",staff_id);
else
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Invalid Login details.</font></b>",request,response);
else
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Invalid Login details.</font></b>",request,response);
catch(Exception e)
//catch exception and redirect to page.
else if(user_type.equals("user")&&(access_level.equals("insurance")))
try
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:http://localhost:3306/Health_Management_System","root","");
ps=con.prepareStatement("select staff_id from user_table where username=?and password=?");
ps.setString(1,username);
ps.setString(2,password);
rs=ps.executeQuery();
if(rs.next())
String staff_id=""+rs.getInt(1);
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Health_Management_System","root","");
ps=con.prepareStatement("select * from insurance_staff_table where staff_id=?");
ps.setString(1,staff_id);
rs=ps.executeQuery();
if(rs.next())
//retrieve the values from insurance staff and store them in variables.
//store important variables in user sessions e.g.staff_id,username,place of work for display in the web page.
//redirect to required page.
String first_name=rs.getString("first_name");
String last_name=rs.getString("last_name");
String work_place=rs.getString("place_of_work");
HttpSession session=request.getSession(true);
session.setAttribute("first_name",first_name);
session.setAttribute("last_name",last_name);
session.setAttribute("work_place",work_place);
session.setAttribute("staff_id",staff_id);
else
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Invalid Login details.</font></b>",request,response);
else
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Invalid Login details.</font></b>",request,response);
catch(Exception e)
//catch exception and redirect to page.
else
//invalid login details.After all else fails.
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Invalid Login details.</font></b>",request,response);
catch(Exception e)
private void showError(String errorMsg,HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)throws ServletException,IOException
request.setAttribute("error_msg",errorMsg);
RequestDispatcher dispatcher=request.getRequestDispatcher("admin_error.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request,response);
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="HttpServlet methods. Click on the + sign on the left to edit the code.">
/** Handles the HTTP <code>GET</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
/** Handles the HTTP <code>POST</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
/** Returns a short description of the servlet.
public String getServletInfo() {
return "Short description";
// </editor-fold>
view
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" language="java" import="java.sql.*" errorPage="" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Login</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="564" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="558" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="style1"><div align="center">
<p> </p>
<h1 class="style7">Welcome to HealthPort</h1>
<p>HealthPort Login</p>
<p><span class="style8">Today's date is:<%= new java.util.Date() %></span></p>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="userCheck">
<p align="right" class="style3">Username
<label></label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" />
</p>
<p align="right" class="style3">Password
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" />
</p>
<p align="right" class="style3">
<span class="style6">
<label></label>
<label></label>
</span>
<span class="style5">
<label></label>
</span>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Login" />
</label>
</p>
<div align="right">
</div></form>
<div align="right"><div align="left"><p align="right"> </p>
</div></div></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="style1"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
so,that's about it.I'd appreciate it.I know this is a lot.I'm grateful
Ayo.

Hi.Im still having issues trying to perform form based authenticatin with entities.I tried this method but im getting errors on the marked lines.
controller servlet
* userCheck.java
* Created on 15 March 2008, 22:41
package servlets;
import Entities.UserTable;
import Entities.userValidationBean;
import javax.annotation.*;
import Entities.userValidationRemote;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.ejb.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.persistence.*;
* @author Ayo
* @version
public class userCheck extends HttpServlet {
//@EJB userValidationRemote userRemote;
boolean checkUser;
String username,password;
/** Processes requests for both HTTP <code>GET</code> and <code>POST</code> methods.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
/*con=null;
ps=null;
rs=null;
s=null;
*/response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
username=request.getParameter("username");
password=request.getParameter("password");
if(username==""||password=="")
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Please fill in the required blanks.</font></b>",request,response);
else
try
Context ctx=new InitialContext();
userValidationRemote userRemote=(userValidationRemote)ctx.lookup("Entities.userValidationRemote");
(error on this line-saying ')' expected and no matter if i add ) there is still erro)userRemote.authenticate(String p_user,String p_password);
catch(Exception e)
out.println("Error:"+e);
if(checkUser==true)
RequestDispatcher d=request.getRequestDispatcher("blah.jsp");
d.forward(request,response);
else if(checkUser==false)
showError("<b><font color=\"red\">Invalid Login details!</font></b>",request,response);
private void showError(String errorMsg,HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)throws ServletException,IOException
request.setAttribute("error_msg",errorMsg);
RequestDispatcher dispatcher=request.getRequestDispatcher("admin_error.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request,response);
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="HttpServlet methods. Click on the + sign on the left to edit the code.">
/** Handles the HTTP <code>GET</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
/** Handles the HTTP <code>POST</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
/** Returns a short description of the servlet.
public String getServletInfo() {
return "Short description";
// </editor-fold>
view
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" language="java" import="java.sql.*" errorPage="" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Login</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="564" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="558" bgcolor="#9DACBF" class="style1"><div align="center">
<p> </p>
<h1 class="style7">Welcome to HealthPort</h1>
<p>HealthPort Login</p>
<p><span class="style8">Today's date is:<%= new java.util.Date() %></span></p>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="userCheck">
<p align="right" class="style3">Username
<label></label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" />
</p>
<p align="right" class="style3">Password
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" />
</p>
<p align="right" class="style3">
<span class="style6">
<label></label>
<label></label>
</span>
<span class="style5">
<label></label>
</span>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Login" />
</label>
</p>
<div align="right">
</div></form>
<div align="right"><div align="left"><p align="right"> </p>
</div></div></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="style1"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
SLSB (implements userValidationRemote)
* userValidationBean.java
* Created on 26 March 2008, 18:25
* To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
* and open the template in the editor.
package Entities;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.ejb.Remote;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.Query;
import Entities.UserTable;
import javax.annotation.*;
//import javax.transaction.UserTransaction;
* @author Ayo
@Stateless(mappedName="ejb/facade/userValidationBean")
@Remote(userValidationRemote.class)
(error on this line saying can't find class TransactionManagement)@TransactionManagement(value=TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
public class userValidationBean implements Entities.userValidationRemote {
@PersistenceContext(unitName="HealthInsuranceApp-ejbPU") private EntityManager manager;
/** Creates a new instance of userValidationBean */
public userValidationBean() {
//"SELECT u.username,u.password FROM UserTable u WHERE u.username =?1 and u.password=?2"
public boolean authenticate(String p_user,String p_password)
UserTable m_user=manager.find(UserTable.class,p_user);
if(m_user!=null)
return m_user.getPassword().equals(p_password);
return false;
Entity
* UserTable.java
* Created on 29 March 2008, 13:24
* To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
* and open the template in the editor.
package Entities;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;
* Entity class UserTable
* @author Ayo
@Entity(name="qs_UserPwd")
@Table(name = "user_table")
public class UserTable implements Serializable {
@Id
@Column(name = "user_id", nullable = false)
private Integer userId;
@Column(name = "username")
private String username;
@Column(name = "password")
private String password;
@Column(name = "user_type")
private String userType;
@Column(name = "access_level")
private String accessLevel;
@Column(name = "staff_id")
private Integer staffId;
@Column(name = "staff_type", nullable = false)
private String staffType;
@Column(name = "time_created")
private String timeCreated;
@Column(name = "time_modified")
private String timeModified;
@Column(name = "time_logged_in")
private String timeLoggedIn;
@Column(name = "time_logged_out")
private String timeLoggedOut;
@Column(name = "created_by")
private String createdBy;
/** Creates a new instance of UserTable */
public UserTable() {
* Creates a new instance of UserTable with the specified values.
* @param userId the userId of the UserTable
public UserTable(Integer userId) {
this.userId = userId;
* Creates a new instance of UserTable with the specified values.
* @param userId the userId of the UserTable
* @param staffType the staffType of the UserTable
public UserTable(Integer userId, String staffType) {
this.userId = userId;
this.staffType = staffType;
public UserTable(String p_user,String p_password)
setUsername(p_user);
setPassword(p_password);
* Gets the userId of this UserTable.
* @return the userId
public Integer getUserId() {
return this.userId;
* Sets the userId of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param userId the new userId
public void setUserId(Integer userId) {
this.userId = userId;
* Gets the username of this UserTable.
* @return the username
public String getUsername() {
return this.username;
* Sets the username of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param username the new username
public void setUsername(String p_user) {
p_user = username;
* Gets the password of this UserTable.
* @return the password
public String getPassword() {
return this.password;
* Sets the password of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param password the new password
public void setPassword(String p_password) {
p_password=password;
* Gets the userType of this UserTable.
* @return the userType
public String getUserType() {
return this.userType;
* Sets the userType of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param userType the new userType
public void setUserType(String userType) {
this.userType = userType;
* Gets the accessLevel of this UserTable.
* @return the accessLevel
public String getAccessLevel() {
return this.accessLevel;
* Sets the accessLevel of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param accessLevel the new accessLevel
public void setAccessLevel(String accessLevel) {
this.accessLevel = accessLevel;
* Gets the staffId of this UserTable.
* @return the staffId
public Integer getStaffId() {
return this.staffId;
* Sets the staffId of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param staffId the new staffId
public void setStaffId(Integer staffId) {
this.staffId = staffId;
* Gets the staffType of this UserTable.
* @return the staffType
public String getStaffType() {
return this.staffType;
* Sets the staffType of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param staffType the new staffType
public void setStaffType(String staffType) {
this.staffType = staffType;
* Gets the timeCreated of this UserTable.
* @return the timeCreated
public String getTimeCreated() {
return this.timeCreated;
* Sets the timeCreated of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param timeCreated the new timeCreated
public void setTimeCreated(String timeCreated) {
this.timeCreated = timeCreated;
* Gets the timeModified of this UserTable.
* @return the timeModified
public String getTimeModified() {
return this.timeModified;
* Sets the timeModified of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param timeModified the new timeModified
public void setTimeModified(String timeModified) {
this.timeModified = timeModified;
* Gets the timeLoggedIn of this UserTable.
* @return the timeLoggedIn
public String getTimeLoggedIn() {
return this.timeLoggedIn;
* Sets the timeLoggedIn of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param timeLoggedIn the new timeLoggedIn
public void setTimeLoggedIn(String timeLoggedIn) {
this.timeLoggedIn = timeLoggedIn;
* Gets the timeLoggedOut of this UserTable.
* @return the timeLoggedOut
public String getTimeLoggedOut() {
return this.timeLoggedOut;
* Sets the timeLoggedOut of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param timeLoggedOut the new timeLoggedOut
public void setTimeLoggedOut(String timeLoggedOut) {
this.timeLoggedOut = timeLoggedOut;
* Gets the createdBy of this UserTable.
* @return the createdBy
public String getCreatedBy() {
return this.createdBy;
* Sets the createdBy of this UserTable to the specified value.
* @param createdBy the new createdBy
public void setCreatedBy(String createdBy) {
this.createdBy = createdBy;
* Returns a hash code value for the object. This implementation computes
* a hash code value based on the id fields in this object.
* @return a hash code value for this object.
@Override
public int hashCode() {
int hash = 0;
hash += (this.userId != null ? this.userId.hashCode() : 0);
return hash;
* Determines whether another object is equal to this UserTable. The result is
* <code>true</code> if and only if the argument is not null and is a UserTable object that
* has the same id field values as this object.
* @param object the reference object with which to compare
* @return <code>true</code> if this object is the same as the argument;
* <code>false</code> otherwise.
@Override
public boolean equals(Object object) {
// TODO: Warning - this method won't work in the case the id fields are not set
if (!(object instanceof UserTable)) {
return false;
UserTable other = (UserTable)object;
if (this.userId != other.userId && (this.userId == null || !this.userId.equals(other.userId))) return false;
return true;
* Returns a string representation of the object. This implementation constructs
* that representation based on the id fields.
* @return a string representation of the object.
@Override
public String toString() {
return "Entities.UserTable[userId=" + userId + "]";
please what do I do? or is there a better way? seems like my appserver(sun java system app server 9.1)doesnt support dependency injection as
there's always an exception in the server log when i try it.i use the default transaction provider toplink because use of any of the others raises an exception and my application index page never shows. please i need help? I want to be able to succesfully perform this authentication as its the only way i can move to the next level
Ayo.

Ask for help with form based authentication & authorization

Hi:
I encountered the following problem when I tried the form based authentication & authorization (see the attached part of the config files, web.xml, weblogic.xml & weblogic.properties)
1. authorization seems not invoked against the rules specfied, it doesn't go the login error page as long as the user/pwd match, even though the user does not have the necessary role
in the example below, user3 should be denied to access the signin page, but seems no login error page returned, actually I never see any page / error message which complain about the authorization / access control error
2. after authenticate correctly, always get redirected to the / (context root) url, instead of the url prior the login page, for e.g., signin page
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance.
HaiMing
attach config files
web.xml
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>MySecureBit1</web-resource-name>
<description>no description</description>
<url-pattern>/control/signin</url-pattern>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>default</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/control/formbasedlogin</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/control/formbasedloginerror</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description>the customer role</description>
<role-name>customer</role-name>
</security-role>
weblogic.xml
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>
customer
</role-name>
<principal-name>
customer_group
</security-role-assignment>
weblogic.properties
weblogic.password.user1=user1pass
weblogic.password.user2=user2pass
weblogic.password.user3=user3pass
weblogic.security.group.customer_group=user1,user2

Hi, Paul:
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Firstly let me just correct a little in the attachment I put previously, I think I missed following lines :
<auth-constraint>
<description>no description</description>
<role-name>customer</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
So, user1 & user2 are in the customer group, but user3 not, and /control/singin is protected by this security constraint, as a result, when anyone click the link to /control/singin, he was led to the login page, if he tries to login as user1 & user2, he should pass & led to original page (in this case /control/singin, and my code's logic, once /control/signin is used, means that he already login successfully & redirected to the login success page), but if he tries to login as user3, he should only pass the authentication check, but fail the authorization check, and led to login error page.
What not happen are :
1. user1 & user2 pass, but redirect to /
2. user3 also pass, because I see that debug message shows also get redirected to /, instead of login error page
(login error page will be displayed, only if I try to login as a user with either wrong userid, or wrong password)
3. one more thing I notice after I first time post the message, the container does not remember the principal, after 1. is done, not even for a while
And the similar configuration works under Tomcat 3.2.1, for all 3. mentioned above.
Any idea ?
HaiMing
"Paul Patrick" <[email protected]> wrote:
If I understand what your trying to do, everyone should get access to the
login page since roles are not
associated with principals until after they authenticate. If I follow what
you specified in the XML files,
authenticated users user1 and user2 are members of a group called
customer_group.
The principal customer_group (and therefore its members) is mapped in the
weblogic.xml file to the role
customer.
I can't speak to the reason your being redirected to the document root.
Paul Patrick
"HaiMing" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi:
I encountered the following problem when I tried the form basedauthentication & authorization (see the attached part of the config files,
web.xml, weblogic.xml & weblogic.properties)
1. authorization seems not invoked against the rules specfied, itdoesn't go the login error page as long as the user/pwd match, even though
the user does not have the necessary role
in the example below, user3 should be denied to access the signinpage, but seems no login error page returned, actually I never see any page
/ error message which complain about the authorization / access control
error
2. after authenticate correctly, always get redirected to the / (contextroot) url, instead of the url prior the login page, for e.g., signin page
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance.
HaiMing
attach config files
web.xml
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>MySecureBit1</web-resource-name>
<description>no description</description>
<url-pattern>/control/signin</url-pattern>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>default</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/control/formbasedlogin</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/control/formbasedloginerror</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description>the customer role</description>
<role-name>customer</role-name>
</security-role>
weblogic.xml
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>
customer
</role-name>
<principal-name>
customer_group
</security-role-assignment>
weblogic.properties
weblogic.password.user1=user1pass
weblogic.password.user2=user2pass
weblogic.password.user3=user3pass
weblogic.security.group.customer_group=user1,user2

Form-based authentication problem with weblogic

Hi Everyone,
The following problem related to form-based authentication
was posted one week ago and no reponse. Can someone give it
a shot? One more thing is added here. When I try it on J2EE
server and do the same thing, I didn't encounter this error
message, and I am redirected to the homeage.
Thanks.
-John
I am using weblogic5.1 and RDBMSRealm as the security realm. I am having the following problem with the form-based authentication login mechanism. Does anyone have an idea what the problem is and how to solve it?
When I login my application and logout as normal procedure, it is OK. But if I login and use the browser's BACK button to back the login page and try to login as a new user, I got the following error message,
"Form based authentication failed. Could not find session."
When I check the LOG file, it gives me the following message,
"Form based authentication failed. One of the following reasons could cause it: HTTP sessions are disabled. An old session ID was stored in the browser."
Normally, if you login and want to relogin without logout first, it supposes to direct you to the existing user session. But I don't understand why it gave me this error. I also checked my property file, it appears that the HTTP sessions are enabled as follows,
weblogic.httpd.session.enable=true

Hi...
Hehe... I actually did implement the way you implement it. My login.jsp actually checks if the user is authenticated. If yes, then it will forward it to the home page. On the other hand, I used ServletAuthentication to solve the problem mentioned by Cameron where Form Authentication Failed usually occurs for the first login attempt. I'm also getting this error occasionally. Using ServletAuthentication totally eliminates the occurence of this problem.
I'm not using j_security_check anymore. ServletAuthentication does all the works. It also uses RDBMSRealm to authenticate the user. I think the biggest disadvantage I can see when using ServletAuthentication is that the requested resource will not be returned after authentication cause the page returned after authenticating the user is actually hard coded (for my case, it's the home.jsp)
cheers...
Jerson
"John Wang" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi Jerson,
I tried your code this weekend, it didn't work in my case. But
I solved my specific problem other way. The idea behind my problem is that the user tries to relogin when he already logs in. Therefore, I just redirect the user into another page when he is getting the login page by htting the BACK button, rather than reauthenticate the user as the way you did.
But, I think your idea is very helpful if it could work. Problems such multiple concurrence logins can be solved by pre-processing.
In your new code, you solved the problem with a new approach. I am just wondering, do you still implement it with your login.jsp file? In other word, your action in login.jsp is still "Authenticate"? Where do you put the URL "j_security_check"?
Thanks.
-John
"Jerson Chua" <[email protected]> wrote:
I've solved the problem by using ServletAuthentication. So far I'm not getting the error message. One of the side effects is that it doesn't return the requested URI after authentication, it will always return the home page.
Jerson
package com.cyberj.catalyst.web;
import weblogic.servlet.security.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Authenticate extends HttpServlet {
private ServletAuthentication sa = new ServletAuthentication("j_username", "j_password");
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
int authenticated = sa.weak(request, response);
if (authenticated == ServletAuthentication.NEEDS_CREDENTIALS ||
authenticated == ServletAuthentication.FAILED_AUTHENTICATION) {
response.sendRedirect("fail_login.jsp");
} else {
response.sendRedirect("Home.jsp");
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
doPost(request, response);
"Jerson Chua" <[email protected]> wrote:
The problem is still there even if I use page redirection. Grrr... My boss wants me to solve this problem so what are the alternatives I can do? Are there any other ways of authenticating the user? In my web tier... I'm using isUserInRole, getRemoteUser and the web tier actually connects to EJBs. If I implement my custom authentication, I wouldn't be able to use this functionalities.
Has anyone solved this problem? I've tried the example itself and the same problem occurs.
Jerson
"Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
Jerson,
First try it redirected (raw) to see if that indeed is the problem ... then
if it works you can "fix" it the way you want.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
http://www.tangosol.com
+1.617.623.5782
WebLogic Consulting Available
"Jerson Chua" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi...
Thanks for your suggestion... I've actually thought of that solution. Butusing page redirection will expose the user's password. I'm thinking of
another indirection where I will redirect it to another servlet but the
password is encrypted.
What do you think?
thanks....
Jerson
"Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe redirect to the current URL after killing the session to let the
request clean itself up. I don't think that a lot of the request (such
as
remote user) will be affected by killing the session until the nextrequest
comes in.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
http://www.tangosol.com
+1.617.623.5782
WebLogic Consulting Available
"Jerson Chua" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hello guys...
I've a solution but it doesn't work yet so I need your help. Because
one
of the reason for getting form base authentication failed is if an
authenticated user tries to login again. For example, the one mentionedby
John using the back button to go to the login page and when the user logsin
again, this error occurs.
So here's my solution
Instead of submitting the page to j_security_check, submit it to a
servlet
which will check if the user is logged in or not. If yes, invalidates its
session and forward it to j_security_check. But there's a problem in this
solution, eventhough the session.invalidate() (which actually logs theuser
out) is executed before forwarded to j_security_check, the user doesn't
immediately logged out. How did I know this, because after calling
session.invalidate, i tried calling request.RemoteUser() and it doesn't
return null. So I'm still getting the error. What I want to ask you guyis
how do I force logout before the j_security_check is called.
here's the code I did which the login.jsp actually submits to
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Authenticate extends HttpServlet {
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponseresponse)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
if (request.getRemoteUser() != null) {
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
System.out.println(session.isNew());
session.invalidate();
Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
cookies.setMaxAge(0);
getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/j_security_check").forward(reques
t, response);
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponseresponse)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
doPost(request, response);
let's help each other to solve this problem. thanks.
Jerson
"Jerson Chua" <[email protected]> wrote:
I thought that this problem will be solved on sp6 but to my
disappointment, the problem is still there. I'm also using RDBMSRealm,same
as John.
Jerson
"Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
John,
1. You are using a single WL instance (i.e. not clustered) on that
NT
box
and doing so without a proxy (e.g. specifying http://localhost:7001),
correct?
2. BEA will pay more attention to the problem if you upgrade to SP6.If
you don't have a reason NOT to (e.g. a particular regression), then
you
should upgrade. That will save you one go-around with support: "Hi,I
am
on SP5 and I have a problem.", "Upgrade to SP6 to see if that fixes
it.
Call back if that doesn't work."
3. Make sure that you are not doing anything special before or after
J_SECURITY_CHECK ... make sure that you have everything configuredand
done
by the book.
4. Email BEA a bug report at [email protected] ... see what they say.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
http://www.tangosol.com
+1.617.623.5782
WebLogic Consulting Available
"John Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Cameron,
It seems to me that the problem I encountered is different a little
from
what you have, evrn though the error message is the same eventually.
Everytime I go through, I always get that error.
I am using weblogic5.1 and sp5 on NT4.0. Do you have any solutions
to
work
around this problem? If it was a BUG as you
pointed out, is there a way we can report it to the Weblogic
technical support and let them take a look?
Thnaks.
-John
"Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
John,
I will verify that I have seen this error now (after having read
about it
here for a few months) and it had the following characteristics:
1) It was intermittent, and appeared to be self-curing
2) It was not predictable, only seemed to occur at the first
login
attempt,
and may have been timing related
3) This was on Sun Solaris on a cluster of 2 Sparc 2xx's; the
proxy
was
Apache (Stronghold)
4) After researching the newsgroups, it appears that this "bug"
may
have gone away temporarily (?) in SP5 (although Jerson Chua
<[email protected]> mentioned that he still got it in SP5)
I was able to reproduce it most often by deleting the tmpwar and
tmp_deployments directories while the cluster was not running,
then
restarting the cluster. The first login attempt would fail(roughly
90%
of
the time?) and that server instance would then be ignored by the
proxy
for a
while (60 seconds?) -- meaning that the proxy would send all
traffic,
regardless of the number of "clients", to the other server in thecluster.
As far as I can tell, it is a bug in WebLogic, and probably has
been
there
for quite a while.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
http://www.tangosol.com
+1.617.623.5782
WebLogic Consulting Available
"John Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi Everyone,
The following problem related to form-based authentication
was posted one week ago and no reponse. Can someone give it
a shot? One more thing is added here. When I try it on J2EE
server and do the same thing, I didn't encounter this error
message, and I am redirected to the homeage.
Thanks.
-John
I am using weblogic5.1 and RDBMSRealm as the security realm. I
am
having
the following problem with the form-based authentication login
mechanism.
Does anyone have an idea what the problem is and how to solve it?
When I login my application and logout as normal procedure, it
is
OK.
But
if I login and use the browser's BACK button to back the login
page
and
try
to login as a new user, I got the following error message,
"Form based authentication failed. Could not find session."
When I check the LOG file, it gives me the following message,
"Form based authentication failed. One of the following reasons
could
cause it: HTTP sessions are disabled. An old session ID was stored
in
the
browser."
Normally, if you login and want to relogin without logout first,
it
supposes to direct you to the existing user session. But I don'tunderstand
why it gave me this error. I also checked my property file, it
appears
that
the HTTP sessions are enabled as follows,
weblogic.httpd.session.enable=true

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