On 17/05/2010 13:43, Gregor Schneider wrote: > Sorry if I drop in here getting a bit off-topic, howver: > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: >> On 17/05/2010 12:36, Stephen . wrote: >> >> HTTPD can handle authentication, or Tomcat can, but not both at the same >> AFAIK. The AJP Connector will need it's 'tomcatAuthentication' >> attribute set to 'false' in the former case. >> > > was never aware of said attribute. > > what i'd like to know: > > from the docs, it says: > >> tomcatAuthentication >> >> If set to true, the authentication will be done in Tomcat. Otherwise, the >> authenticated principal will be propagated from the native >> webserver and used for authorization in Tomcat. The default value is true. > > hm, that puzzles me a bit... > > does it also work vice-versa, meaning that autorization is handled by > tomcat and then passed back to native httpd?
Nope. More's the pity. p (Looks over shoulder for inbound "patches welcome" comment). > would be a real bummer if we could dump that mod_auth_cookie_mysql-stuff... > > cheers > > gregor
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