On 17/10/2016 16:53, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote: <snip/>
> In this case, the OP originally mentioned "add an attribute to the > request". > I have the feeling that the word "attribute" here was not very specific, > and in reality (since we are talking about an authentication method > "faking" another one) it may have meant "add a HTTP header" (the OP is > welcome to correct if I am mistaken). > Assuming that you were in a Filter, what you would need to do in such a > "wrapper", would probably be to > 1) copy the existing request headers in your own, wrapper-specific, new, > headers collection > 2) add the additional header to that copied collection > 3) override all the methods by which one can obtain these headers, to > return the copied/modified version instead of the original headers > collection (or member of) > > But maybe in a Valve, you do not need to go through all of that, and you > can modify the original headers collection directly. (question mark) Correct. In a Valve, you can modify request headers directly. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
