Render image from servlet in flyingsaucer generated pdf
I'm using flyingsaucer to render an xhtml document to pdf through a servlet which returns the generated pdf document. The xhtml document features an image which is requested from another servlet. The image servlet checks who is logged in before returning the appropriate image. The code below shows how the image is requested: <img height="140" width="140" src="http://localhost:8080/myapp/servlet/DisplayPic" /> My problem is that the http request for the image is from the pdf renderer and not the logged in user so the image servlet doesn't know who's logged in and therefore the desired image is