[opencms-dev] Can't find params in request object

[Philip]

Ok, 

The reason it wasn't working is because my page was an .html page.  So, even
though the page was created with a template that had dynamic elements in it,
it wasn’t actually dynamic because it was exported as an .html flat file.

Now I know what's going on, but I still need a "best practice" for the
solution.  

Basically, I want to have a login process that is included in the template.
So, there'll either be a message like:
"You are logged in as Joe"

Or, if guest is logged in, just display a login/password form.  I had the
login logic in my template, but since the file is actually exported as an
.html file, it obviously can't do anything dynamic.

So, do I have to make all of my pages .jsp pages, or is there a better way?
Ultimately, I want to implement some degree of access control over which
pages can be viewed by Guest and which pages can be viewed only by logged-in
users.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Arian Abrahantes Quintana
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 3:45 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Can't find params in request object

Hi,

First of all, I am beginner. So... When I am working on the workplace
session, I also had this kind of problem. Seems to be that there is some
interference when the workplace session is open and the method
"request.getParameter" is called (at least for login, username, password and
logout) but it vanishes as soon as I am loged out of the workplace session.

hope this help or heat the forum ;)

best regards,

arian

Philip wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>For some reason, I can't find the parameters from a form that I'm 
>testing in my request object.
>
>I'm accessing the request object in my template and using the template 
>for an html file.
>
>The only parameters that I can find in the request object are:
>element: _flex_export_body
>element: _flex_export
>element: _flex_export_encoding
>
>It doesn't seem to matter whether this page is being submitted to or 
>not, I get only those params.
>
>---------------Here's the code:
><%
>    // create a JSP action element
>    CmsJspActionElement cms = new CmsJspActionElement(pageContext, 
>request, response);
>    CmsObject cmsObject = cms.getCmsObject();
>    out.println(request.getParameter("login"));  // this produces null, 
>no matter what
>    Enumeration params = request.getParameterNames();
>    while (params.hasMoreElements()) {
>        out.println("element: " + params.nextElement() + "<br/>");
>    }
>    if (request.getParameter("login") != null) {  //This block is never 
>run as the param is always null
>        //out.println("It was not null!");
>        String username = request.getParameter("username");
>        String password = request.getParameter("password");
>        out.println("About to log user in with " + username + " " + 
>password);
>        if (username != null && password != null)
>            cmsObject.loginUser(username, password);
>    }
>
>%>
>---------------End of code
>
>I'm using OpenCMS 5.0.1 on Redhat 7.3
>
>If anyone has any thoughts, I'd really appreciate it.
>
>Thanks!
>Philip
>
>
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