On 10/01/2014 22:46, Jeffrey Janner wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 4:08 PM >> To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: Re: Question on SSL and Pragma in 7.x >> >> On 09/01/2014 18:22, Jeffrey Janner wrote: >>> I'd like to verify something I think I'm seeing in Tomcat 7.x. >> >> <snip/> >> >>> Am I interpreting all that correctly? >> >> See http://markmail.org/message/2kkq4yxgacgbrwht >> >>> If I wanted to add a section that did use Tomcat Auth, would I >>> need/want to add the appropriate Authenticator valve back to the >> context.xml? >> >> Only if you need to change the configuration of the Authenticator. >> Tomcat adds the correct Authenticator automatically based on the <auth- >> method> defined in web.xml >> >> Mark >> > > Thanks Mark. I will keep that in mind, but it looks like the defaults will > do it from now on. > However, any idea about the last section of my post? > Specifically, why the SSlAuthenticator was kicking in when the auth method > was defined as Basic? (note, no SSL auth method was configured in the > web.xml, but the SSLAuthenticator was configured in the context.xml.) Just > curious about that.
If you explicitly add an Authenticator via context.xml then it will be treated like any other valve and be invoked for every request. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
