Okay, I see your point.
But, if a user requests a secure page without logging in, how will you
find out? Are you using a Servlet Filter or something?
Poorna
David Delbecq wrote:
>Hello Poornachandran,
>
>as i said webapp X manage authentification all by itself (basically
>using it's own providers, so there is now security constraint and so on
>in the web.xml, webapp does not use container managed security, and i
>have no control over this, closed source webapp), but it provides an
>extension mecanism (implement a given interface). I'd like to implement
>a simple class that just do something like
>tomcatContainer.checkCredentials(user,userprovidedpass), which will
>check those credentials against configured realm. Or, if i have no other
>choice, will instanciate the realm, configure it and use it. (I just
>hope don't need to do that, this sound awfull).
>
>So, obviously, in webapp, a request.getUserPrincipal() will always
>return null.
>
>Poornachandran a écrit :
>
>
>
>>Hi David,
>>
>>I am just wondering after your app authenticates, are you able to get
>>not-null from request.getUserPrincipal(). I understand this is how the
>>container understands that user is logged on or not.
>>
>>Poorna
>>
>>David Delbecq wrote:
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>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I probably will have the following webapp structure to configure
>>>- webapp X manage authentification all by itself (using forms and so on)
>>>but provide a way to configure your own credential using a quite basic
>>>checkPassword(user,pass) interface.
>>>- Tomcat is able to authenticate all my users for now (connecting to a
>>>ldap-like JNDI structure)
>>>
>>>Is there a way from the webapp to call tomcat api and have it check a
>>>user/password according to configured realm?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
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