> No, container BASIC authentication should be enabled, the container should > handle the authentication, but the browser should not show his ugly default > login dialog when I request resources from the REST-service with wrong > credentials. > When the REST-client (web-application in the browser) receives a failed > login with a WWW-Authenticate header, the default dialog of the browser will > be shown... that’s what I want to suppress. > > When I remove the (a) <login-config> or (b) <auth-method> sending requests > with credentials will not work anymore (a: 403 forbidden; b: deployment > fails). But that's not a solution because the rest-service should be still > protected and I need to authenticate via "Authentication: Basic ....." > header send credentials, but I don't want to show the ugly browser-dialog to > the users. > > Using a AngularJS Client with REST-services based on tomcat should be a > common use-case, it could not be that I'm the first one who wants a custom > login-screen. :-/ > > -torsten
Torsten, Add an interceptor to AngularJS to detect the 401 and do whatever you want, e.g. redirect to a login page. Then when you have the credentials, submit to login rest api, get a token, and then make all other calls passing this token. There are loads of examples on how to do this on the internet. This isn't tomcat specific. function globalInterceptorResponse($injector, $q) { return { 'response': function (response) { return response; }, 'responseError': function (rejection) { switch (rejection.status) { ... case 401: console.warn("Hit 401 - redirecting to login"); window.location = '/login'; break; ... default: console.warn(rejection); } return $q.reject(rejection); } }; } globalInterceptorResponse.$inject = ['$injector', '$q']; then in request config, $httpProvider.interceptors.push(globalInterceptorResponse); Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org