Tomcat: can I use .htaccess files to protect html files

[Rob Cartier]

I was looking through and trying to apply minimal security
to a directory like I do in apache . But so far I am not able 
to get it to work on tomcat 4.0

any pointers

.htaccess file is stored in the directory I am trying to secure

AuthUserFile /var/www/passfile*
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Protected Area
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

Any ideas ??

Rob