RE : Customizing BASIC authentication

2004-09-07 Thread LERBSCHER Jean-Pierre
type of authentication. -Message d'origine- De : Robert Bateman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 16 août 2004 20:42 À : Tomcat Users List Objet : Re: Customizing BASIC authentication Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here... Also be aware that non-protected page

Re: Customizing BASIC authentication

2004-08-19 Thread Fred Toth
Hi, Thanks to you both, but my question is not so much about how to get the user name in the request. Instead, it's this: I need to use basic authentication (i.e. the browser pops up the login), but then I need to run custom code to actually check the login and password with an internal system, ins

Re: Customizing BASIC authentication

2004-08-16 Thread Robert Bateman
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here... Also be aware that non-protected pages will not provide you with a value to request.getRemoteUser(). I had assumed I could get the remote user from any page once the user logged in, but it doesn't work as I expected. I believe there *was* a bug r

Re: Customizing BASIC authentication

2004-08-13 Thread Jacob Kjome
You can use request.getRemoteUser() to obtain the username. The password is not really accessible except by examining the http headers. Jake At 11:21 PM 8/13/2004 -0400, you wrote: Hi all, I've been spending the last few hours reading about realms, valves, authenticators and the like, and I'm to