Hi,
Hopefully someone can suggest a solution to my problem.
Firstly, I have a html form which was generated by some application(servlet, cgi,
etc). Let's say, the URL for this form is http://host:8080/cgi/someform. Let's
also assume that the user has already authenticated themselves (Basic authentication)
with a Realm of "Program" for the above URI.
The above form defines an action attribute with some servlet ie.
http://host:8080/servlets/someServlet
Because this servlet is using a different base URI to that of the original form, the
browser doesn't send the currently cached authentication header.
In this servlet I do some processing, create a HttpURLConnection object, and forward
some of the form parameters onto another program which is in the same realm/URI as the
original application. The program want's to send a WWW-authenticate back to my
HttpURLConnectionObject. Of course, I don't have the authentication field from the
original request, to forward in the HttpURLConnection object.
Hope that makes some sense.
Is there anyway for the servlet, running under a particular URI, to request the
authentication header from the browser, for a different URI?
Thanks,
Mick
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