On 20/02/2013 21:20, André Warnier wrote:
> Hi.
> In relation to a couple of recent posts, I have a naive question :
>
> In a servlet, to retrieve the authenticated user-id (if any), I use
>
> String userName = request.getRemoteUser();
>
> Now, suppose I wanted to create a servlet filter which (under certain
> conditions), would force the current request to be authenticated as user
> "someuser", how would I do that ?
>
> I s'pose it would too much to ask that it would just be
>
> request.setRemoteUser("someuser");
>
> Mmm ?
Almost, but you need to use a method that actually exists in the API.
HttpServletRequest.login(String username, String password)
Mark
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