True, something like String uid = (String)req.getRemoteUser();
will pick up the user name that ws used in the authentication.
Good point..
Geeta
Eric Noriega wrote:
> I would assume that the authentication is all or nothing. Why not
> just have Apache handle the authentication, and grab the username from the
> environment?
>
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Geeta Ramani wrote:
>
> > Jake:
> >
> > You could maybe use a session variable: set it when the person authenticates and
> > check for it when the person accesses the page.
> >
> > geeta
> >
> > Jake Brain wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I want to protect my site using Basic Authentication. I have a form log in
> > > that goes to log in servlet, authenticates against ldap, if valid, creates a
> > > session, and lets the user in. In this situation, I was wondering if there
> > > is way that I can then tell Apache this guy has authenticated so don't
> > > respond with a www=authenticate header when he tries to access a protected
> > > page. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Regards, Jake the Snake
> > >
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