I'm using tomcat 4.1.18 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 sp1 as the
browser and oracle as the database to which I authenticate users.
Oddly, the colon character cannot be used in user names, but can be used in
passwords. I'm assuming my code is at fault, but I cannot see how.
Perhaps there
In the basic authentication approach the userid and password
are concatenated with a ':' between them, base64 encoded, then
placed in an HTTP header to send to the server.
Obviously, the server will have trouble differentiating between
the ':' in the username and the one separating the user name
