Question

Session Login And Logout

Asked by: keneticintrouble

Hi there,

I’m currently on an application that has an administrative module. I’m experiencing problems in clearing the sessions so as to log a user out and also to login as an admin and as a user of the application. I’m using a Java Bean for this purpose.


This is the code to check to see if there is a login session as an administrator or as a user. If there is no login session, the page will display a noAuthority.jsp ….. else it will show the page contents.

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" language="java" import="java.sql.*" errorPage="" %>

<jsp:useBean class = "Beans.User" id = "userid" scope = "application"></jsp:useBean>
<jsp:setProperty name = "userid" property = "*"/>

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>

<%if (session.isNew()==true)
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("login.jsp"));%>

<%
boolean userAdmin = userid.checkUser();
if (userAdmin == false)
{%> <jsp:forward page = "noAuthority.jsp" /> <%}
else
{%>
<%
String loginName = userid.getUserName();
String loginPass = userid.getUserPass();
%>

Username: <% out.println(loginName); %> <br>
Password: <% out.println(loginPass); %> <br>
<h5> Hello, <%= userid.getUserName() %> You are Authorized! </h5> <br>
<b>Session ID: </b><%= session.getId() %><br>
<a href = "LogOut.jsp">logout test</a>

<%}%>

</body>
</html>


This is the Login_action page to process the login session with validation for username and password. The admin username is hardcoded and usernames are stored in a MySQL database.


<%if (session.isNew()==true)
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("login.jsp"));%>

<!-- Validation Page for Login-->
<!-- Open connection and execute query -->
<%
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver");
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test", "root", "");
Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
%>

<% ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery("Select * from users"); %>
<%
boolean userValidate, passValidate;
userValidate = false;
passValidate = false;
String name = " ";

if (rs != null)
      {while (rs.next())
            {name = rs.getString("Username");
                        if (name.equals(request.getParameter("usernm")))
                              {userid.setUserName(name);
                              userValidate = true;
                              session.setAttribute("Pass-name", name);
                              session.setMaxInactiveInterval(60);
                               String pass = rs.getString("password");
                                    if (pass.equals(request.getParameter("pass")))
                                          {userid.setUserPass(pass);
                                          passValidate = true;}}}}

if (userValidate==true && passValidate == true)
      {response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("success.jsp"));}
            
else if (userValidate==true && passValidate == false)
{out.println("Password Error! Pls Try Again.");
%> <a href = "login.jsp"> BACK </a> <%}

else
{out.println("User Name Error! Pls Try Again.");}

%>




This is the logout page code. Basically clears the session created during the login.

<body>

<%if (session.isNew()==true)
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("login.jsp"));%>

<%session.invalidate();%>
<h4> You were being Logged out </h4> <br>
<a href = "login.jsp"> Login </a><br>
<b>Session ID: </b><%= session.getId() %>
</body>


Currently, the problem that I’m facing is that when I logout of the application, I’m still able to access a page by typing the URL of the page into the browser twice. For example,
http://localhost:8080/newtemplate/create_user.jsp

Also, sometimes, there is an error page that shows the message; forward statement cannot proceed because a response has been committed.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

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Asked On
2003-11-30 at 18:01:43ID20812212
Tags

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session

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login

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logout

Topic

Java Server Pages (JSP)

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Answers

 

by: keneticintroublePosted on 2003-11-30 at 18:04:46ID: 9847387

Additional Queries:

I'm using the Tomcat Web Server to host the JSP so is there such a thing as a tomcat cache that stores sessions?? If so, how can i clear that because i think my codes recognise that as a session instead of the admin module's session.

Thanks again

 

by: objectsPosted on 2003-11-30 at 18:30:27ID: 9847580

> <%if (session.isNew()==true)

You need to do more than that, that only checks if session has just been created. So the 2nd time the page is loaded it will return false.

 

by: objectsPosted on 2003-11-30 at 18:31:29ID: 9847589

You need to check userid to see if it contains an authenticated user.

 

by: objectsPosted on 2003-11-30 at 18:32:31ID: 9847600

> <jsp:useBean class = "Beans.User" id = "userid" scope = "application"></jsp:useBean>

That should also have session scope, and not application.

 

by: kokchoon78Posted on 2003-12-01 at 16:28:00ID: 9854383

>>Also, sometimes, there is an error page that shows the message; forward statement cannot proceed because a response has been committed.

That is because the response has been committed after you try to redirect to another page :

Try to move your sendRedirect method before any html tags.

for example :

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" language="java" import="java.sql.*" errorPage="" %>

<jsp:useBean class = "Beans.User" id = "userid" scope = "application"></jsp:useBean>
<jsp:setProperty name = "userid" property = "*"/>

<%if (session.isNew()==true)
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("login.jsp"));%>

<%
boolean userAdmin = userid.checkUser();
if (userAdmin == false)
{%> <jsp:forward page = "noAuthority.jsp" /> <%}
else
{%>

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
...

objects is correct, try to use the following to check the session :

if (session.getAttribute("Pass-name") != null )



 

by: keneticintroublePosted on 2003-12-02 at 08:45:45ID: 9859627

Dear Participants,

All your help has reaped success!!! I've managed to solve the problem.

With regards to objects, i can't use the scope="session" but the scope="application" tag. The former will constantly "lock" me out of the application, even if i'm logged on as the administrator.

The code that i've amended is listed below:

<% boolean userAdmin = userid.checkuser();
%>

<% if (session.isNew() == true || userAdmin == false || session.getAttribute("Pass-name") == null)
{
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL("login.jsp"));
}

else {

displayed contents here......


}
%>

 

by: objectsPosted on 2003-12-02 at 12:40:48ID: 9861401

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