Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-11 Thread Anthony Jay
Hi all, Winners never quit and quitters never win See. http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=126047599208053&w=2 Thanks for the assistance!!! Tony Anthony Jay wrote: > yes, I was aware of this, as mentioned on a previous mail, but as its > neither production ready nor complete it would be a hug

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-10 Thread André Warnier
Anthony Jay wrote: yes, I was aware of this, as mentioned on a previous mail, but as its neither production ready nor complete it would be a huge risk. I am beginning to think that I am attempting the impossible... After several weeks banging my head against a wall (I have a sore neck) I am givin

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-10 Thread Anthony Jay
yes, I was aware of this, as mentioned on a previous mail, but as its neither production ready nor complete it would be a huge risk. I am beginning to think that I am attempting the impossible... After several weeks banging my head against a wall (I have a sore neck) I am giving this one more day t

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-03 Thread André Warnier
Hi. I got some (as yet partial) answers on this on the Apache httpd forum. Check out this : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_auth_form.html In summary, and subject to more confirmation by the Apache developers : A series of new Apache modules is due to appear in Apache 2.4 (the next "p

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread André Warnier
Pid wrote: On 02/12/2009 17:34, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay : As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are static/singleton services th

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread Pid
On 02/12/2009 17:34, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay: As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are static/s

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 12/1/2009 6:57 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Peter Crowther wrote: >> 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay : >>> As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own >>> code to see if there are static/singleton services that can be >>> re-en

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Jay
Hi, Thanks for the great advice. On placing singletons etc in jar libraries in tommcat /lib directory, that would be a very simple hack that could keep code pretty much as is. Thank you for that suggestion, it may well be a runner, I didnt think that was possible. In terms of fronting everything

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread André Warnier
Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/1 Anthony Jay : As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own code to see if there are static/singleton services that can be re-engineered and decoupled. This may be one of the few appropriate times where you may want to put code for the si

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Crowther
2009/12/1 Anthony Jay : > As for cross application communication I will have to revisit our own > code to see if there are static/singleton services that can be > re-engineered and decoupled. This may be one of the few appropriate times where you may want to put code for the singletons (and all th

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Jay
Thanks all for your comments, I do appreciate the expert assistance. As I suspected I will have to split the webapp into seperate apps based on the authentication method required. Seems like a funny way to arrange an application but such is life. As for cross application communication I will have t

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony, On 11/30/2009 4:53 AM, Anthony Jay wrote: > Is is possible to have an application that serves content protected by > BASIC and FORM based auth? As Mark points out, the servlet spec says "not in the same webapp." Tomcat implements the ser

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-11-30 Thread Mark Thomas
Anthony Jay wrote: > Hi, > Is is possible to have an application that serves content protected by > BASIC and FORM based auth? > i.e. > JSP protected by FORM > Servlets that process XML use http BASIC? The Servlet spec does not support this. There is a maximum of one login method allowed per w

Re: Basic and Form Authentication

2009-11-30 Thread André Warnier
Anthony Jay wrote: Hi, Is is possible to have an application that serves content protected by BASIC and FORM based auth? i.e. JSP protected by FORM Servlets that process XML use http BASIC? There is a rather extensive description available here : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/real