This one's got me stumped.
In web.xml, you can have a <security-constraint> section. Within that,
there's <web-resource-collection> and, with that, you can have a section
called <web-resource-name>, but I can't find any documentation that says
what it's used for. All of the documentation I've found says that it
defines the name of the resource, but that's it.
With other tags, the tag contents have to correspond to something
somewhere else (like <auth-constraint> having to match user entries
elsewhere) or they are something that is shown to the user (like
<realm-name> showing up on the name/password box your browser shows you
when you use "BASIC" authentication).
But, in the case of <web-resource-name>, I can't find any rules saying
that the name has to match anything anywhere else and I also haven't
been able to get Tomcat to display the name to me in any of its
responses. So, what DOES Tomcat use it for?
- Joe
