Phil, I am Viktor Gritsenko. There is another guy on the list, Vadim Gritsenko.
Viktor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vadim Gritsenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Realms Challenge > Hi Vadim, > > I've spent the morning reading through the servlet specification and > only found the well known Request class that will give me the user > (getRemoteUser()) after they have already been authenticated. Can't find > anything about actually getting the browser to present the > username/password challenge. > > I'm guessing that I need to get hold of some tomcat class from within my > custom cocoon classes that allows me to specify realms, and provide > authentication info for validating users. > > Can anyone think of any of the classes involved to narrow my search? > > I'm guessing that this has been done perhaps a million or two times > before, so I'm wondering why it's so hard to find examples or why no-one > seems to know how to do it. It seems like a classic case to be included > in the cocoon examples. There is a protected area example but it's > really just another form example. Perhaps the protected area example in > cocoon could be updated to demonstrate basic realm authentication. > > I've had to implement this kind of thing once before using 'jigsaw' but > jigsaw's internal security was specific to jigsaw so its no help to me > now, worse luck. :) Still, I'm guessing that it will be something > similar in tomcat. > > If there's someone who has achieved basic realm authentication from > within cocoon, is it possible to get an example or some advice on which > API to look at? > > Thanks again. Have fun, > > Phil > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
