On Wednesday 14 July 2004 18:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to have the servlet using some http authentication. But how can I > forward this to the > org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpURL > That I need to construct the WebdavResource? > > There is a method getRemoteUser() in javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest > But how can I forward the password, or the authentification?
There aren't methods for these, you have to read the request headers. With Basic HTTP Authentication you have a header named "Authorization" that should contains something like this: BASIC d2VibWFzdGVyOnRyeTJndWVTUw The string following "BASIC " is encoded with Base64 and contains username:password. -- Davide Savazzi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
