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[14:47:33 CDT(-0500)] <cwaymire> let me double check my setting
[14:47:43 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that servlet is being directly accessed by the client
[14:47:49 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the portal has zero control over it
[14:48:00 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so none of the portal user's "state" is available
[14:48:07 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and in fact the session will only exist
[14:48:16 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> if you have previously accessed a portlet in the same webapp
[14:48:19 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and that portlet created a session
[14:48:43 CDT(-0500)] <cwaymire> which is the case. are there any tricks to getting the username of the authenticated user?