----- 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
