Good day all,please i need your help . I developed servlet authentication login and now i want each of my password to be allowing only 3 times access on a particular username before it becomes invalid for ever .it will prompt an error message "sorry the password has been used 3 times get new one".Please am stuck ,i need your help. Below is my code and am using tomcat6.0.16.Any help rendered will be appreciated. Thanks and have a wonderful day.
package myservlets;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class AuthenticateUserServlet extends HttpServlet{
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
String username = request.getParameter("username");
String password = request.getParameter("password");
try{
String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
Class.forName(driver).newInstance();
Connection con=null;
ResultSet rst=null;
Statement stmt=null;
String url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/money?user=root&password=root";
con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);
stmt=con.createStatement();
String query = "select username from login where username='"+username+"' and password='"+password+"'";
System.out.println(query);
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
if(rs.next()){
response.sendRedirect("/try/ValidentryServlet");
}
else{
pw.println("Please insert veiled Username and Password!");
}
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}package myservlets;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class ValidentryServlet extends HttpServlet{
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
pw.println("Welcome to World of Knowledge!" + " ");
pw.println("my beloved ");
}
}