Re: Denying access to a JSP page directly

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:47:58 -0400
Message-ID:
<lqSdnRrIgvITAJ7anZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@comcast.com>
send2r@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, this is not a very standard way of dealing with logins.


Please do not top-post.

Sameer wrote:

Dear All,
My login page is index.html.
It accepts username/password there.
Validates it using validate.jsp and redirect it to main.jsp for
further processing.
But i noted that without using index.html, one can go directly to
main.jsp using address bar.
To avoid this i have done this.
I have added this code to validate.jsp

{
%>
<jsp:forward page="main.jsp">
<jsp:param name="security" value="secured" />
</jsp:forward>
<%
response.sendRedirect("main.jsp");}

%>

As the validate.jsp do not submit any form i have to use the forward
tag.
Now i check this at the start of main.jsp.
<%
try {
String is_secure = request.getParameter("security");}

catch (NullPointerException npe)
{
response.sendRedirect("secure.html");}

%>

If the user directly goes to main.jsp then this code will throw the
NullPointerException.
The code throws the exception (as seen on the console) but it do not
redirect it to secure.html.
Why this may be?
Is this the right approach? Any suggestions?


You should avoid having Java scriptlet in your JSPs. You should use
<jsp:forward> instead of redirect. Using <jsp:forward> prior to the rest of
validate.jsp means that the rest of the JSP will not render. You should keep
authentication information in the session, as send2r suggested when they also
pointed out that your NPE is never thrown.

--
Lew

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