>>>>> "gragert" == gragert  <gragert@m...> writes:

    gragert> <snip>
    >> Most of the other book examples I've tried have worked fine.
    >> 

    gragert> Dear David, I have the same experience. Things do not work (at
    gragert> once) as is described.  BUT I found out the following: If you use
    gragert> including a loginpage.jsp and use it (with error because there is
    gragert> no j_security_check available??? see problems with
    gragert> j_security_check and tomcat 4) then you get the message of the
    gragert> security level you have given in the web.xml file in place of the
    gragert> 'null' ?  So maybe we should ask what is going on with this tomcat
    gragert> and j_security_chec stuff ;-) Greetings Peter

This is quite different.  The "loginpage.jsp" is using FORM authentication, not
BASIC.

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