Web Application with different URLs for different Users

Question

I want to create a Struts2 Web Application with a functionality like:

• if user A is logging in, then he can access the application like

  http://product.com/a/login.jsp
  

• if user B is logging in, then

  http://product.com/b/login.jsp
  

and so on.

How can I achieve this?

Is it good to do this? or can I use Subdomain?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that: in GMail (that you've taken as example) every user will always be redirected, after the log-in, to the same location:

https://mail.google.com/mail/

If you enable the Google Multiple Sign-In, they will store separately the different log-in credentials server side, and will use different cookies client-side, with the same name but different paths:

Cookie for 1st account login:

Name    : S 
Content : gmail=someRandomHash
Server  : mail.google.com
Path    : /mail/u/0

Cookie for 2nd account login:

Name    : S 
Content : gmail=someRandomHash
Server  : mail.google.com
Path    : /mail/u/1

Then, when switching from one account to another, they will redirect you to a different URL:

1st account mailbox URL

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/

2nd account mailbox URL

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/

Once authenticated on both of them, you can manually switch between your different mailboxes by simply accessing the relative URL (try, if you have multiple accounts).

Conclusions: Google use different Rest URLs (with a named variable, in this case u: user) to differentiate multiple accounts... for the same PC. The added value is that you can switch between your multiple accounts without the need to log-out of the first and log-in to the second every time.

This has nothing to do with separating the URLs to handle different accounts ON DIFFERENT COMPUTERS.