Is it possible to call a web script via an SSI or jsp:include? For example if the web script returned the HTML content of items for a search or latest by date, can the script be executed via some sort of page include? I have attempted this but I believe the HTTP basic auth is killing it (a c:import tag complains of the response code 401). I've read on the Web Scripts Wiki pages that they can be run as a specific user - is this the runas attribute in the desc.xml <authentication/> node? Also there is brief mention of a ticket being appended to the url but doesn't give much detail on this.
Yes, this is possible. I've managed to do it via a nasty hack, by building up an URLConnection. I have a JSP page which reads a session variable to get the URL (including parameters) to call, which calls the script, sets a suitable authentication on the connection, and just writes out the results. The code below is what I wrote to get something working - there's better ways to store the user/password etc (it's base 64 encoded version of the string "user
assword").
String scriptName = session.getAttribute("scriptName").toString();
if (scriptName != null && scriptName.length() > 0) {
try {
URL url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service'+scriptName);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic HURtaHJSYHFdDdW4=");
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(stream);
int i;
while ((i = in.read()) != -1) {
out.write(i);
}
out.flush();
} catch (Throwable e) {
// Silently fail.
}
}
I had to read a session variable, because there doesn't seem to be a way to pass a variable in a <jsp:include/>. You can pass constant parameters, but not variable parameters. So I set the session variable before including the page.
If anyone has a better solution, I'd love to see it.
Sam.
