Hi Reynir, how can you get the Authentication header? As far as I know the only information you can get is the Principal and the username, but not the password, neither clear nor encoded.
Andreas On 2 Dec 2002 at 9:14, Reynir Hübner wrote: > Hi, > > Depending on the browser and authentication scheme this will may > try to authenticate against tomcat. There for you should be able > to do request.getRemoteUser() on (at least) the first request > that has the authenticative username:password. > request.getRemoteUser() only returns the username, you can get > the Authentication header wich is formed like this in BASIC > authentication scheme: String user_Password = login+ ":"+ > password; String encoding = new String > (Base64.encode(user_Password.getBytes())); String Authentication > = "Basic " + encoding; > > You might be able to do that backwards somehow.... > > Hope it helps > -reynir > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Abhishek Srivastava [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 2. desember 2002 08:30 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Sunu Joseph > > Subject: Retrieving username and password from url?? > > > > > > Hi, > > Is there a way that I can retrieve the username and password > > from the url given as below using a servlet. > > https://username:password@hostname/servletname> /servlet > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Abhishek > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
