When deploying the application to your local Glassfish just call http://localhost:8080/AuthenticationDemo/secure/index.jsp and see what happens (I assume you have deployed to “AuthenticationDemo”, the HTTP port is 8080 and the HTTPS port is 8181). You will see the login page we have defined at /WEB-INF/login.jsp and the protocol has changed from HTTP to HTTPS. Before you create a new User Account try to access the same URL via HTTPS: https://localhost:8181/AuthenticationDemo/secure/index.jsp. As you can see the same login page shows up again. Now go to http://localhost:8080/AuthenticationDemo/ to see what happens here. The HttpToHttpsFilter we have implemented will forward you to https://localhost:8181/AuthenticationDemo/. On that page you can create a new User Account. Once you have created a User Account you are automatically forwarded to https://localhost:8181/AuthenticationDemo/secure/index.jsp. Just to make sure, please try to access https://localhost:8181/AuthenticationDemo/secure/index.jsp directly in a new tab. This time no login screen shows up because the register service executes a login for the just created user. Next you could play with logout and login again. Have fun.
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