I want to say thank you all for your help and many different ways to solve my problem. I think the most -maybe all- will work in an ideal world without hard requirements through legacy client-applications. I don't want to hold on BASIC as auth-method because I like it so much, I prefer to kick that legacy application. ^^
My solutions at the end was a custom valve/Authenticator: public class CustomTomcatBasicAuthenticator extends BasicAuthenticator { public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException { boolean result = super.authenticate(request, response); modifyResponse(request, response); return result; } @Override public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response, LoginConfig loginConfig) throws IOException { boolean result = super.authenticate(request, response, loginConfig); modifyResponse(request, response); return result; } private void modifyResponse(Request request, HttpServletResponse response) { String url = request.getPathInfo(); if (response.getHeader(AUTH_HEADER_NAME) != null && url.startsWith("/rest")) response.setHeader(AUTH_HEADER_NAME, "XXX_BASIC"); } } And a context.xml in my war-file: <Context> <Valve className="database.server.servlets.CustomTomcatBasicAuthenticator" /> </Context> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org