Session time-out and password security

Hi,
I have a webservice utility, deployed on several platforms (as an EAR on weblogic and webspere, as a WAR on tomcat), they all exhibit the same feature: on first connection, a username/password box pops up, but after the session times out (after 20 minutes or so of inactivity) and the it receives a new page request, instead of re-asking for the username/password, the app just jumps back to its own start page, and then continues without asking.
How can I make it to pop-up the username/password box again?
The security is implemented through the web.xml file:
<security-constraint>
    <web-resource-collection>
      <web-resource-name>Success</web-resource-name>
      <url-pattern>/Logparser</url-pattern>
      <http-method>GET</http-method>
      <http-method>POST</http-method>
    </web-resource-collection>
    <auth-constraint>
      <role-name>webuser</role-name>
    </auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
    <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
    <realm-name>default</realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-role>
    <role-name>webuser</role-name>
</security-role>I found that this in itself was not good enough security as you would be able to go directly to one of the sub-pages (if you know the url), and to prevent that I pass (and check) the session-id with each page request.
(all java servlets).
Obviously something is missing, but I don't know what
thanks
Michael

Hi Michael,
Your web application is currently configured to use BASIC authentication.
Instead if you use FORM-based authentication, then any new request (after your web application session times out) will be redirected to the login page. The Servlet specification has more information about FORM-based login.
If you have a Sun ONE Web Server 6.1 or a Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 installation you can find a sample that uses form-login in the following directory
6.1: <install-directory>/plugins/java/samples/webapps/security/form-auth
7.0: <install-directory>/samples/java/webapps/security/form-auth

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