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Problem with Websphere Form Based Authentication

 
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Hi,

I'm using form-based authentication for my system login and I'm facing a problem with the redirection after verifying the user credentials.

"http://mytest" displays my application login page. After I have login, the system verifies that I am a valid user and redirects me to "http://mytest/main.jsp". However, when I logout and login again using a new browser window, the system will display a blank page after I have submitted my login. The URL of the page shows "http://mytest/j_security_check".

I have found a way to get around this by deleting "j_security_check" from the URL to display the login page again. Upon submitting my login, the system will redirect me to the correct page.

May I know where does the problem lies and how I can resolve this? I have seeked many forum but I could not get much help, hence I really appreciate any comments/advice. Thanks.
 
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What version of WAS are you running? We had similar behaviour in WAS 4.0.1 and 4.0.2, then it worked in 4.0.3 but was broken again in 4.0.5
Or maybe you're onanother version completely.
 
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Hi David,

I'm using WAS 4.0.7.

Does this problem occurs with this version too? Is there any websites that I can obtain more info on this?
 
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I only used the versions mentioned, I didn't get to try the version you referred to and haven't touched WAS in 2 years.

The only way we got it working was to try a version and see how far we got. Raising issues with IBM didn't help since in many cases they didn't admin it was a problem. In one situation they said it was designed to work that way. Essentially we tried each version until we found one that worked and stuck with it. When we looked at upgrading we found things stopped working again so we didn't upgrade. It made us sad.
 
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Hi David,

Thanks for your comments
 
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