Interesting blog about a way to use a form for requesting creds (because it looks nicer) but still using HTTP Basic auth for the actual authn. http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/http-auth-with-html-forms.html
Sanjiva. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- 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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