----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Slide Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: J2EE Authentication Problem


> > Good solution, but this is a slightly different problem.  The app server
> > authenticates the requests to my WebDAV GUI.  I can find out the name,
but
> > not the password.  I need to send a request from my GUI to Slide, and I
> > want Slide to see it as coming from the same user.  I need the Principal
> > from one request to be copied to the other request.  Then Slide will
create
> > a trusted CredentialsToken for that Principal, and use them for ACLs and
> > ownership stuff.
>
> How does the application authenticate. If your using basic auth over http
you
> can simply get the encoded auth header and send that in the header of the
> wedav request (this assumes that the application is trying to it's other
> communications via http).

I tried copying the auth header.  It had no effect.

>
> > I'm still scratching my head if anyone has any ideas.  I can modify
Slide
> > to accept some sort of cookie, but I was hoping to use it as-is.
>
> What value would you put into the cookie?

Principal name, I suppose.




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