What is the status of BASIC authentication in Tomcat4.0-latest? I noticed it
seems to do nothing. A login dialog never appeared, but it gave access to the
resource, and the return from "request.getAuthType()" in the resource was a
null string.
I'm not familiar with the architecture, but I tried setting breakpoints in
"AuthenticatorBase" and "BasicAuthentication" (in NetBeans), but I never saw
anything meaningful. It did hit some of the breakpoints, however.
I did a search in the tomcat-dev mailing list, and I found lots of messages
which talked about particular issues with BASIC and FORM authentication, but
nothing specifically saying that BASIC authentication didn't work. I would
have searched the bug database, but it was down at the time (Internal Server
Error).
This is mostly just a curiousity, as I doubt I'd ever use BASIC authentication
for a real project, but as I'm just getting started absorbing the Tomcat
architecture, I find it helpful to try to track problems, no matter how
trivial.
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