com.silverpeas.authentication
Class AuthenticationServlet

java.lang.Object
  javax.servlet.GenericServlet
      javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
          com.silverpeas.authentication.AuthenticationServlet

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, javax.servlet.Servlet, javax.servlet.ServletConfig

public class AuthenticationServlet
extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

This servlet listens for incoming authentication requests for Silverpeas. This servlet delegates the authentication process and the HTTP session opening in Silverpeas to the corresponding services. If the authentication and the session opening succeed, the user behind the authentication ask is redirected to its user home page. Otherwise, he's redirected to an authentication failure page (that can the login page enriched with an error message).

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

AuthenticationServlet()

Method Summary

void	doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Ask for an authentication for the user behind the incoming HTTP request.
void	doPost(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest servletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse servletResponse) Ask for an authentication for the user behind the incoming HTTP request from a form.

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

doDelete, doHead, doOptions, doPut, doTrace, getLastModified, service, service

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.GenericServlet

destroy, getInitParameter, getInitParameterNames, getServletConfig, getServletContext, getServletInfo, getServletName, init, init, log, log

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AuthenticationServlet

public AuthenticationServlet()

Method Detail

doPost

public void doPost(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest servletRequest,
                   javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse servletResponse)
            throws IOException,
                   javax.servlet.ServletException

Ask for an authentication for the user behind the incoming HTTP request from a form.

Overrides:

doPost in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

Parameters:

servletRequest - the HTTP request.

servletResponse - the HTTP response.

Throws:

IOException - when an error occurs while processing the request or sending the response.

javax.servlet.ServletException

doGet

public void doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                  javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)
           throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                  IOException

Ask for an authentication for the user behind the incoming HTTP request.

Overrides:

doGet in class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

Parameters:

request - the HTTP request.

response - the HTTP response.

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - if the servlet fails to answer the request.

IOException - if an IO error occurs with the client.