Re: Container Managed Security - Basic authentication will not work.

[Craig R. McClanahan]

Miles Daffin wrote: Hi, TC version: 3.1Java version: "1.3.0-C"OS: Win 2000 (SP 1) Has anyone else tested the Example Basic Authentication Area (see TOMCAT_HOME\readme.txt) in the example web app? I placed an index.html in '/examples/jsp/security/protected' directory and tried the following URLs: 1: http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/security/protected/2: http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/security/protected/index.html3: http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/security/protected/index.jsp In each case a Basic Authentication dialog opens OK & I enter a user ID and password combination as defined in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml.  Container managed security in Tomcat 3.1 is broken.  Use 3.2 or 4.0. Craig McClanahan