Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-11 Thread Anthony Jay
Hi all, Winners never quit and quitters never win See. http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-userm=126047599208053w=2 Thanks for the assistance!!! Tony Anthony Jay wrote: yes, I was aware of this, as mentioned on a previous mail, but as its neither production ready nor complete it would be a huge

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-10 Thread Anthony Jay
yes, I was aware of this, as mentioned on a previous mail, but as its neither production ready nor complete it would be a huge risk. I am beginning to think that I am attempting the impossible... After several weeks banging my head against a wall (I have a sore neck) I am giving this one more day

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-10 Thread André Warnier
Anthony Jay wrote: yes, I was aware of this, as mentioned on a previous mail, but as its neither production ready nor complete it would be a huge risk. I am beginning to think that I am attempting the impossible... After several weeks banging my head against a wall (I have a sore neck) I am

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-03 Thread André Warnier
Hi. I got some (as yet partial) answers on this on the Apache httpd forum. Check out this : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_auth_form.html In summary, and subject to more confirmation by the Apache developers : A series of new Apache modules is due to appear in Apache 2.4 (the next

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay anthony...@fastmail.fm: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are static/singleton services that

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread Pid
On 02/12/2009 17:34, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jayanthony...@fastmail.fm: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay anthony...@fastmail.fm: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread André Warnier
Pid wrote: On 02/12/2009 17:34, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jayanthony...@fastmail.fm: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Jay
Thanks all for your comments, I do appreciate the expert assistance. As I suspected I will have to split the webapp into seperate apps based on the authentication method required. Seems like a funny way to arrange an application but such is life. As for cross application communication I will have

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Crowther
2009/12/1 Anthony Jay anthony...@fastmail.fm: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are static/singleton services that can be re-engineered and decoupled. This may be one of the few appropriate times where you may want to put code for the

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread André Warnier
Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay anthony...@fastmail.fm: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are static/singleton services that can be re-engineered and decoupled. This may be one of the few appropriate times where you may want

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Jay
Hi, Thanks for the great advice. On placing singletons etc in jar libraries in tommcat /lib directory, that would be a very simple hack that could keep code pretty much as is. Thank you for that suggestion, it may well be a runner, I didnt think that was possible. In terms of fronting

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-11-30 Thread André Warnier
Anthony Jay wrote: Hi, Is is possible to have an application that serves content protected by BASIC and FORM based auth? i.e. JSP protected by FORM Servlets that process XML use http BASIC? There is a rather extensive description available here :

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-11-30 Thread Mark Thomas
Anthony Jay wrote: Hi, Is is possible to have an application that serves content protected by BASIC and FORM based auth? i.e. JSP protected by FORM Servlets that process XML use http BASIC? The Servlet spec does not support this. There is a maximum of one login method allowed per web

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony, On 11/30/2009 4:53 AM, Anthony Jay wrote: Is is possible to have an application that serves content protected by BASIC and FORM based auth? As Mark points out, the servlet spec says not in the same webapp. Tomcat implements the