Excellent reply, thanks.
This part >However, if you are sending this to your own webapp and need to extract >the >information, you can get the username via req.getRemoteUser() >http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.3/javadoc/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getRemoteUser(>) Is exactly what I am after. However, when I make the call inside a jsp that the BASICAuthIFramePortlet, is sending to, then the result is null. Am i doing something wrong ? On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 19:13, Jacob Kjome wrote: > Hi Paul, > > At 05:56 PM 11/4/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > > >I have a few questions about BASICAuthIFramePortlet, I wonder if anyone > >can help. > > > > > >How come its in the src tree in b4 but i cant find it in the jar files ? > > No idea. Haven't checked out the latest binaries. > > > >If i redirect to a JSP page, how can one extract the username and > >password ?? > > > >If i modify the source to put them as arguments to the web page > >e.g. www.webpage.domain?username=xxx?password=xxx > >The username is null ( have not checked password yet ) > > > >Can anyone help me out here ? > > > > First, when using BASIC Authentication, you don't pass the username and > password as query parameters. You pass them like this.... > > <https://cool:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/>https://myusername:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > > Second, my original idea for creating this portlet was to just send it to > servers that were protected using BASIC Authentication so, normally, you > wouldn't need to extract the username and password. The receiving site > would authenticate automatically. > > However, if you are sending this to your own webapp and need to extract the > information, you can get the username via req.getRemoteUser() > http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.3/javadoc/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getRemoteUser() > > I'm not entirely clear on how to extract the password, but that isn't > usually necessary since the container performs the authentication. All > you generally need to know is the name. However, IBM has an article that > might be of interest to you which applies to their portal server (which is > based on Jetspeed)... > http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0110_gilmore/gilmore.html > > ....actually, this might give you what you need... > http://www.ajsoft.net/Products/WebUtils/xref/net/ajsoft/WebUtils/Security/WebAuthentication.html > > Also, you might want to read this bug (enhancement) report describing the > use of BasicAuthIFramePortlet... > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18632 > > > Jake > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
