Hi Douglas, could you please create a JIRA issue for this enhancement request?
that will make it easier to track. regards marcel On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 18:46, Douglas Jose <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have extended Jackrabbit to allow HTTP digest authentication through > WebDAV, as Windows 7 can't connect to a WebDAV repository using basic > authentication. I would like to contribute to the project with this feature. > The implementation is based on Tomcat's source code (I have used it as a > reference to implement the same authentication handling in Jackrabbit). I > hope that's not a problem. > > In order to enable the digest authentication, you need to: > > - Change the WebDAV servlet from > 'org.apache.jackrabbit.j2ee.SimpleWebdavServlet' to > 'org.apache.jackrabbit.j2ee.DigestWebdavServlet' in the web.xml file; > - Change the LoginModule to > 'org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.simple.DigestLoginModule' in the > repository.xml file > - Add the parameter 'passwordsFile' to the DigestLoginModule with the path of > the passwords file. > - Add to the passwords file created above the user id and the password > digest. The utility DigestPasswordUtil in the jackrabbit-jcr-commons project > can be used to generate the entry to be appended to the passwords file. > > java -cp target/jackrabbit-jcr-commons-2.2-SNAPSHOT.jar > org.apache.jackrabbit.util.DigestPasswordUtil user realm password > > The DigestLoginModule configuration is optional, I believe the > DigestWebdavServlet should work normally with the SimpleLoginModule which > accepts any credentials. > > Kindly, > > Douglas > >
