Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-25 Thread Gregor Schneider
Hi Peter, On 1/25/07, Peter Stavrinides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg thanks for this, sounds like it has potential, and It wont be a problem with separate machines, but one problem I foresee though is the new IE7 browser which disables cookies on the client by default, have you tested it?

Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Stavrinides
Greg thanks for this, sounds like it has potential, and It wont be a problem with separate machines, but one problem I foresee though is the new IE7 browser which disables cookies on the client by default, have you tested it? Christopher, I am currently using the Authorization header but the

Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-24 Thread Pid
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, Peter Stavrinides wrote: I do mention however that two separate physical servers exist and the webapps are on two separate web servers as well... they appear under the same host to users because the URL's are dynam

Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, Peter Stavrinides wrote: > I do mention however that two separate physical servers exist and the > webapps are on two separate web servers as well... they appear under the > same host to users because the URL's are dynamically rewritten on the

Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-24 Thread Gregor Schneider
Peter, I think this can be done with mod_auth_cookie_myql. You will, however, have to write your own little SSO-Servlet / JSP which updates the MySQL-DB with the JSSOSessionID-Cookie provided by Tomcat. Apache will then read the Cookie from the database, check, if this cookie is present on the c

Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Stavrinides
Christopher, thanks for your reply. I do mention however that two separate physical servers exist and the webapps are on two separate web servers as well... they appear under the same host to users because the URL's are dynamically rewritten on the front end. The DNS is entirely separate, so t

Re: Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, Peter Stavrinides wrote: > I have an Apache web server with Basic authentication configured to use > a Postgres database. Web application A (written in Perl) uses it. > > Web application B (written in Java) runs on Tomcat 5.5.20 on a different

Configuring a common authentication realm

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Stavrinides
I don't know if this is possible, but this is the scenario: I have an Apache web server with Basic authentication configured to use a Postgres database. Web application A (written in Perl) uses it. Web application B (written in Java) runs on Tomcat 5.5.20 on a different physical server, it us