Hi Mauro

I did a quick review, looks good.

Cheers
Christian

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Mauro Bartolomeoli <
mauro.bartolome...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have prepared a pull request for this.
>
> I chose to create a new filter in the main module, independent from the
> existing Request Headers filter.
>
> Please, review if you wish.
>
> Mauro
>
> 2014-10-09 15:24 GMT+02:00 Christian Mueller <
> christian.muel...@os-solutions.at>:
>
>> Hi Mauro
>>
>> In any case we should avoid code duplication and utility classes. I am
>> fine with a distinct implementation too. "CredentialsFromHTTPHeader" sounds
>> fine :-)
>>
>> Go on, I assume you will make a pull request for discussion.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Christian
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Mauro Bartolomeoli <
>> mauro.bartolome...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-10-09 13:18 GMT+02:00 Christian Mueller <
>>> christian.muel...@os-solutions.at>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mauro
>>>>
>>>> If I got it right, you want a filter to act as an end point for a pass
>>>> through authentication. If this is the case, please create a new filter
>>>> class or class hierarchy, your filter should be named
>>>>  "GeoServerPassThroughAuthEndPointFilter"  or similar.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Uhm... I am not sure we need another hierarchy. I agree that this filter
>>> is not preauthenticated, so probably it deserves a distinct implementation.
>>> Basically what it does is very similar to what BasicAuthentication or
>>> other filters do: fetch credentials in "some way" and then let the
>>> authentication manager do the authentication (this is what I meant when I
>>> said " uses the authentication providers chain to do the authentication
>>> ").
>>>
>>> My only concern is that some functionality could be useful also in the
>>> existing RequestHeader filter (for example the possibility to extract the
>>> username using a regular expression). Maybe we can put some common
>>> functionality in utility classes and use it from both filters, or just
>>> duplicate the code and don't bother too much :).
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am against a new community module, I would vote for adding this
>>>> filter in the core code.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agree, then we need a name to distinguish this filter from the existing
>>> "HTTP Header", something like "Credentials from HTTP Headers". Ideas are
>>> welcome.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mauro
>>>
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