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"Professional XML Web Services". Go to the archieves and search on
"HTTPAuthentication in Axis."
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com
Dan
- Original Message -
From: Naresh Bhatia
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: RE: Authenticat
Title: RE: Authentication and digital signatures
Dan,
Thanks for all this wonderful information. I downloaded the examples and have couple of questions about basic authentication.
Example 1 sets that username and password as follows:
org.apache.axis.client.ServiceClient.set
Authentication and digital signaturesNaresh,
Basic Authentication and SSL can be handled directly by your web server.
The following are links to the relevant Tomcat How-To.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/realm-howto.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/ssl-howto.
Hi Naresh,
You may find the following sketchy description helpful:
Authentication is about proving to someone that you are who you claim to be.
In PKI world, this would mean possession of the private key corresponding to
a X509 certificate having the public key issued by a well known CA. Usual
