Christopher L Merrill wrote:

Richard O. Hammer wrote:
  Of course a server-side Java programmer can bypass
  HTTP authentication and write his own authentication
  code which keeps its stuff in a session, a session which
  can be timed out or invalided at the server-side
  programmer's will.

Yup. Most web-based apps do this. Very few use the HTTP-based authentication method.


Do very few Java web apps use HTTP-based authentication because it so flaky as to be almost useless for any serious application?




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