Ah yes understood. Ref the discussion we were having about allowing any webapp to use IS for authentication and authorization, wouldn't a generic servlet filter (which had minimal dependencies so that only a bit of stuff has to be thrown into the webapp classpath) that any webapp can use to get basic auth support be quite useful?
What are the implications of using that for Carbon itself - that is, stop the form based authentication and use basic auth. Sanjiva. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > We can declare servlet filters in the web.xml file. However, the code in > these filters will not see the classes within our bundles, since those > filters are loaded by the webapp classloader. > Azeez > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Azeez, is there an option to do this at a webapp level? Before the Carbon > > servlet basically .. or maybe map different paths to other servlets and > then > > use filters there? > > > > Sanjiva. > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Srinath, > >> The OSGi specs are not going to support the newer Servlet API concepts > >> for the foreseeable future. This is not an Equinox limitation > >> > >> Azeez > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Srinath Perera<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi All; > >> > > >> > I am having trouble integrating Solr because it depends on a > >> > ServeltFilter for functionality (for basic functionality, not for > >> > security). However, AFAIK, carbon servelt support (think culprit is > >> > equinox) does not support filters. > >> > > >> > Right now we support some level of filtering through hard coding > >> > filter logic in to "CarbonSecuredHttpContext" (Please have a look at > >> > the CarbonSecuredHttpContext.java, you will see what I mean). IMHO > >> > this is a very bad way to do it, and it negates the advantages of > >> > carbon by requiring us to go and change the > >> > CarbonSecuredHttpContext.java when we add a bundle that need filtering > >> > (e.g. solr integration need a change). > >> > > >> > Is it possible to support servelt filters (or equivalent) in the near > >> > future? Do anybody know a way to work around this? > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > Srinath > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > ============================ > >> > Srinath Perera, Ph.D. > >> > WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com > >> > Blog: http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/ > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Carbon-dev mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> Afkham Azeez > >> [email protected] > >> WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com > >> Blog: http://afkham.org > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Carbon-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > > > > > > > -- > > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > > email: [email protected]; cell: +1 650 265 8311 | +94 77 787 6880 > > blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > > > The Open Source SOA Company > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Carbon-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Afkham Azeez > [email protected] > WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com > Blog: http://afkham.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected]; cell: +1 650 265 8311 | +94 77 787 6880 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ The Open Source SOA Company
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