[opencms-dev] authienticating a web user throug servlet fails

[Alexander Wallace]

Hi there...   I'm trying to use a servlet to authenticate web users and do 
other things...  I have a form which has that servlet as it's action, the 
servlet gets called fine, i have stepped through the code in debug mode and i 
can see every linke do what it's supposed to... I'm able to authenticate and 
login the web user.

At that point i can see the current user is my newly logged in user. I then go 
and do a redirect to the "landing" page for the user... and here's where my 
problem statrs... The current user in that page is the "guest" user.... So 
somehow, i'm loosing the session and a new one is replacing it or something 
like that...

Anyone has experienced this? Can someone share some insight?  I can't figure 
out why this is happening... If i can't figure it out i'm thinking of 
changing my strategy and use JSPActionBeans (extending them and using them 
from a jsp) or something, but i think the servlet should work right?

Thanks!