User access Restrictions

[Rahul Ashar]

Hi All,
I m working on a web project where several
pages are used by variety of user roles (users have different
authorities for the application).
There are few users how have a application login but do not have authority to view some of the pages.

I need to restrict users from getting the restricted pages (not meant for
his/her authority), mearly by typing the url of those pages. I have set in the role id in the session but is there any way that I can secure pages from being accessed by un-authorised users (although having a valid id but no Previliges).

I had thought of adding a verfication on each jsp page but not sure whether it is good in terms of the maintainance and adding pages.

Regards,
Rahul

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Rahul,
If we are talking about good practice, it would be better to have the JSPs only available via redirection from a servlet.

In any case, take a look at Servlet Filters. You can encode the security logic there and intercept the request if the user doesn't have the right role id for a page.