Question

I have index.jsp , i need to include a header.jsp in that.The problem is – header.jsp contains dynamic menu (for loggedIn users and for non-loggedIn users) i can check if user is logged in or not using session in index.jsp. but not in header.jsp

How can i include header in this situation ??

Can i access session object in header.jsp anyway?

Answer 1

Add conditional statement in header.jsp. (Presume that the you’ve session key named islogged that represent a status whether a user is logged or not)

<c:choose>
 <c:when test="${not empty islogged}">
   //html markup for logged user
 </c:when>
 <c:otherwise>
  //html markup for not logged user
 </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

EDIT :

@I don’t have any session key maintained..but I would like to ..How can I do this?

Create a servlet, compare username and password in doPost() method, set session key-value if user is authenticated.

You can verify a user (whether he/she is logged or not) by checking a session key-value in filter.