Can I do HTTP authenticaton in my servlet?

I am using Tomcat as the servlet container. What I want to do is write a servlet which do HTTP authentication without Tomcat's interacting. Is it possible? In detail, to enable HTTP authentication (basic realm), you should configure the web.xml in your webapp, and configure the

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PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can I do HTTP authenticaton in my servlet? I am using Tomcat as the servlet container. What I want to do is write a servlet which do HTTP authentication without Tomcat's interacting. Is it possible? In detail, to enable HTTP