How to get HttpServletRequest in a component?

[shmoula]

Hi,
I'm trying to create a webscript, which renders a login/logout link. My authentication is done by Alfresco user factory. I did a working java-backed webscript, which after direct access in browser works correctly, but when I add this webscript as a component into page, I can't access HttpServletRequest, which is needed by AuthenticationUtil.
I tried following snippets:

HttpServletRequest httpRequest = ((WebScriptServletRequest)req).getHttpServletRequest();

produces

java.lang.ClassCastException - org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.LocalWebScriptRequest cannot be cast to org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletRequest

and

HttpServletRequest httpRequest = WebScriptServletRuntime.getHttpServletRequest(req);

which returns null :-(.

So my question is: how can I get HttpServletRequest inside java-backed webscript, which is inside page as a component?

Thanks in advance!

[kroast]

HttpServletRequest request = ServletUtil.getRequest();

This is a Surf feature i.e. not available in a pure webscript based tier. But of course you wouldn't be rendering your webscript as a component in a page unless you were running in Surf

Cheers,

Kev

[shmoula]

wau, it works!!
Many thanks Kev!