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
