> you are already fronting Tomcat with another webserver ? No, Tomcat is the only web server and I am not looking to front it with another webserver.
-----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:01 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Source Address based Realms Aggarwal, Ajay wrote: > I need to treat my clients differently depending on where they came > from. I need to trust all requests coming locally (i.e. from > 127.0.0.1/localhost) and not require them to authentication. However all > external requests need to go through authentication. Is there a way to > configure Realms in Tomcat to accommodate this? > > > > Is there another way to achieve this, i.e. without using Realms or > missing valve/filters with Realms? > > Maybe phrasing the problem in a different way would throw another light on the issue : You want to automatically authenticate requests coming from a given IP (or IP range), for example by authenticating them as user "local", and not do this for other requests, which then would have to go through a normal authentication. Since I am more familiar with Apache httpd than with Tomcat, I will ask if by any chance you are already fronting Tomcat with another webserver ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
