j-security-check

I'm investigating an issue where a username with Latin-1 character is introduced in a login form. The username contains character á. I investigate the server part where I have: public class MyRealm extends RealmBase implements Realm { public Principal authenticate(String username, String password) { ... actual authentication implemented here } } If I print out the bytes : username.getBytes() I see that character á has: C3 83 C2 A1 Normally character á in UTF8 encoding shoul have : C3 A1. If I encode this in UTF8 again the I get: C3 83 C2 A1 what my software prints out. I checked in the network

I want to send request to j_security_check from servlet and get auth cookie from response. Code: String url = "http://someserver:8080/j_security_check?j_username=user&j_password=qwerty"; HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection(); If I put wrong auth parameters then on response I get a default wrong-login page, but if I put right auth parameters I got server code 408. What's wrong? To get some resource on the tomcat server with j_security_check auth it is necessary to implement three steps: Send GET request to the needed private resource, in response you

I get the username of the connected user (using j_security_check) this way, through a managed bean: ...... username = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getUserPrincipal().getName(); And then display it in a jsf page this way : #{userBean.username} But I figured no way to get the number of connected users and get their role. In other words, I want to display besides the username, the user role and the number of connected users. How can I achieve this!? Thanks in advance for your help! EDIT: I can now get the Role of the connected user, using a namedquery in a managed bean :