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Hello, I'm Chris Schultz, the maintainer of the securityfilter project (http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net/) and active member of the tomcat-user mailing list. I've been loosely following the plans for Tomcat 7 and was interested to see that there's an effort to convert existing Tomcat Valve components into Filters, I suppose to make them more flexible and also to increase portability. For those unfamiliar with the project, securityfilter is a filter-based implementation of authentication and authorization that aims to comply with the Java Servlet Specification while offering features above and beyond it. Most of our users have abandoned container-managed auth provided by containers such as Tomcat because of missing features (not specified by the servlet spec) such as "barge-in" logins, customized after-login pages, and customizability that doesn't tie the web application to any specific container. I inherited the existing securitfyilter code base from Max Cooper and I've been trying to improve the compliance with the servlet spec and to ensure support for the more recent versions of the spec (sf is mostly 2.3 compliant, but we're trying to fill-in all the holes). After adding a few features to the 2.x code base, I'm considering a full re-write of the code for a 3.x version that is more flexible than the current implementation. I was thinking that, as Tomcat contemplates a conversion of container-managed auth from a Valve to a Filter, securityfilter could possibly factor-into that conversion. I'd be happy to convert sf into an Apache commons/incubator project and have Tomcat use it for authentication and authorization. Mark Thomas has indicated his interest in discussing this possibility on the development list, so I'm presenting it to the group. I'd be happy to give more details about my current plans for sf, etc. but I figured that if there was significant interest in the Tomcat/ASF communities, we could discuss what feature set ought to be available. Please let me know if the community is interested in "adopting" securityfilter and, ultimately, using it in Tomcat. Thanks, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvYdS8ACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCRygCgwJ3Sw9g5YRbgHh/RQqLXdzXz 8IwAoJBEk06BovBRtADh9WfAQMx/F2Zp =dcy8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
