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> Sent: Saturday, 23 March 2002 8:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tomcat 4 getRemoteUser() with custom http
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm porting something off of Weblogic and onto a combination of Jboss
> and Tomcat.
>
> All our http requests are intially handled by an iplanet server, which
> authenticates people (in a strange and curious way). We then send http
> requests to the servlet engine (which is currently weblogic)
> to actually
> process the request.
>
> So my webserver knows who the remote user is and just wants
> to bury that
> information in the http headers in such a way that tomcat
> reads it, and
> provides that information via getRemoteUser(). Tomcat doesn't
> need to do
> any authentication itself.
>
> For weblogic, we just have to set something like
>
> proxy-remote-user: <username>
>
> in the HTTP headers. I can't find any way to do this with the
> HTTP connector
> for Tomcat however. I looked briefly at the warp connector,
> that seems to have
> something similar ... but I really want to stick to HTTP.
>
> Is there anything I can send in the HTTP request from the
> webserver to the Tomcat servlet engine which just TELLS
> Tomcat who the remote user is and makes it return the correct
> value for getRemoteUser()?
If you just want to return the remote user you won't be able
to use the "getRemoteUser" function. Instead, try this:
String auth = request.getHeader("Authorization");
String userpassEncoded = auth.substring(6);
String userpassDecoded = Base64Decoder.decode(userpassEncoded);
>
> Roland
>
>
>
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