2013/11/5 Steve Appling <sappl...@automatedlogic.com>: > > Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote on 11/04/2013 03:11:52 > PM: > >> From: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> >> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> >> Date: 11/04/2013 03:10 PM >> Subject: [External] Re: Custom Authenticators >> >> 2013/11/4 Steve Appling <sappl...@automatedlogic.com>: >> > >> > >> > In Tomcat 7 I could use the org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded class' >> > addAuthenticator method to set up my own custom authenticators. This >> > allowed me to define a new authenticator that a web-app could select > with >> > <auth-method/> in web.xml. Now that the Embedded class has been > removed >> > (in 8), I'm not sure how to accomplish this. Is there some way to add > a >> > similar custom authenticator when using the Tomcat class? >> >> How to you configure it when running standalone? >> >> E.g (from TestDigestAuthenticator.java of Tomcat 7): >> . >> ctxt.getPipeline().addValve(new DigestAuthenticator()); >> >> Best regards, >> Konstantin Kolinko > > Currently I am only running it embedded in another application. I'm not > sure I understand your question about standalone. > I know that the containing application can manually add any authenticator > as a valve, but I have various web applications that are added to the > product at runtime. The technique of using the addAuthenticator method > lets the developer of the web application select my custom authenticators > using the auth-method element.
The code in Embedded class ultimately calls ContextConfig.setCustomAuthenticators(...). Thar API is still available, but it is not so easy to call it once the Context is created. I think the same code could be added to Tomcat.addWebapp(...) method. Please file an enhancement request in Bugzilla. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
