Frank, I pursued a very similar exercise last week. I have a webapp using BASIC authentication and wanted to add in an RSS interface that used DIGEST authentication. Unfortunately, I never could figure out how to do this in a single webapp. I figured I'd chime in, though, as I think it'd be a nice feature if it's not already possible.
Jay | Jay Burgess [Vertical Technology Group] | http://www.vtgroup.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:38 AM To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Somewhat OT: Multiple auth methods in one webapp? Hello... I marked this Somewhat OT because what I'm trying to accomplish would ultimately be running in Websphere. However, I would like to develop it under Tomcat as I've always done, and it's also a general webapp question... I have an existing webapp that uses form-based authentication. Now I'm being asked to expose some Web Services from it, and I'm thinking of using AXIS. However, one of our requirements is that HTTP be secured with basic auth. Ideally I would like to add AXIS to my existing webapp, but it doesn't seem possible to use both auth forms in a single webapp. In a perfect world I could continue to secure the user-accessible app with form-based auth, but secure just the path to the AXIS-based services via basic auth. I'm thinking the only way is to have a second webapp, but can anyone think of another solution? Thanks! -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Web Parts - http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
