Grouper Developers Forum

[Gary Chapman <>]

Is there a place where use of web.xml in conjunction with Grouper is 
documented?
Haven't seen much beyond mention in the "Customising the Grouper UI" wiki 
page.


GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> Hi Owen,
>
> I did make some changes to how errors are handled in 1.3.0. I tried and 
> failed to get a nice looking 401 error page if someone failed to enter 
> credentials so this may account for the change in behaviour. I'll take 
> another look but I may end up removing the error-page config if I can't 
> find a proper solution.
>
> Gary
>
> --On 22 April 2008 12:40 +0100 Owen Cliffe 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > Owen Cliffe wrote:
> > > Hi, I've just started testing with grouper 1.3.0 RC1 and I've been
> > > experiencing a problem with tomcat auth which has got me scratching my
> > > head.
> > Have stopped scratching, this  appears to be a known problem with some
> > versions of  tomcat
> > :https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42409  when custom
> > error pages are used.
> >
> > For now a workaround was commenting the 401 error page from web.core.xml
> >
> > <!--    <error-page>-->
> > <!--        <error-code>401</error-code>-->
> > <!--        <location>/error.do?code=401</location>-->
> > <!--    </error-page>-->
> >
> > I presume that if this isn't a problem for other people that it is fixed
> > in a later version of tomcat.
> >
> > Thanks anyway,
> > --Owen
> > --
> > Owen Cliffe                    Systems & Networks Administrator
> > Bath University Computer Services            University of Bath
> > Tel: 01225 386047
>
>
>
> ----------------------
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing