Mark,

Thanks for the quick (and useful) reply.  I'll dig through those issues and see
if any of them apply.  And hopefully I can find a solution that doesn't involve
a TC upgrade, as I can't do that at this point.

Thanks again.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:38 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: BASIC authentication to DIGEST authentication

Jay Burgess wrote:
> Given that I've got BASIC authentication working for my webapp using cleartext
> passwords, shouldn't I simply be able to change my <auth-method> from "BASIC" 
> to
> "DIGEST" in <login-config> and it should start working using digest
authentication? 
> 
> It's not, obviously, but I've seen previous posts in this group that say 
> things
> like "clear text + DIGEST -> works!", so I think it's doable.  I'm using TC
> 5.0.19 by the way.

Yes, it should just work. However, there have been a bunch of fixes in
this area. You may hit any of the following bugs/missing features:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9851
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37132
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31198
5.5.5 Add DIGEST authentication support to the JDBC and DataSource
realms. Supports both digested and cleartext passwords. (markt)
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32137
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31592

If you want to digest the passwords in tomcat-users.xml (or wherever
you store them) then a little more work is required and you may hit
more problems.

Mark


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