Hey there;
and, at first, thanks a lot for the hint.
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> WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Document Management System"
>
> I'm not sure if tomcat will interpret the resulting "Authorization" header
> in the next request, given that you asked him not to authenticate, b
Kristian,
> However, following this approach I cannot use container-based
> authentication as the DBMS user management repository is not easily
> accessible via such a configuration but there are Java classes to
> authenticate the user using an API which to be called from another Java
> class, a s
If you configure Tomcat to NOT require authentication for this particular
servlet, then your servlet can examine the credentials, and if they are
absent or insufficient, send a 401 - Not Authorized response, which causes
the browser to prompt for id/pass. You can also manipulate the "realm"
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