Etienne, This article may be of interest to you in setting up basic authentication on Orion.
http://kb.atlassian.com/content/atlassian/howto/securingdirectory.html Most of the time you can use the default XMLUserManager, which has the users and passwords contained in XML files (principals.xml). Cheers, Scott -- Scott Farquhar :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlassian :: http://www.atlassian.com Supporting YOUR J2EE World Etienne Giraudy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious to know if there is any possibility to setup my webapp for using > basic authentication without having to code a (simple) user manager (cf > http://www.orionsupport.com/articles/usermanager.html). > > It seems that orion is the only app server needing some code to support > basic authentication. > Our application has built in support (decoding of http header authentication > data) for basic authentication and it has been successfully tested under > weblogic, websphere, tomcat, resin and jrun! > But it seems that orion strip off the http header authentication data before > passing it to the webapp... > > > Any help appreciated. > > Etienne Giraudy > > > >
