REPOST: RE: Realm implementation question

2002-10-05 Thread Christopher Todd
Posting this again, as I did not receive a reponse the first time. > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Realm implementation question > > > Please

Realm implementation question

2002-09-28 Thread Christopher Todd
Please forgive me if this is an obvious newbie question, but I am not a Java guru, nor have I studied all the intricacies of Tomcat. I am trying to implement a new Realm, which will obviously require some configuration parameters in server.xml, and I want to make sure I understand how to access t

JDK version support when coding patches

2002-09-09 Thread Christopher Todd
I am working on a patch for Tomcat 4.x, and was wondering if there were any requirements for supporting older versions of the JDK. Can I code up a patch that uses classes and/or methods only available in 1.4, or do I have to support 1.2? Can I write two versions, one that uses 1.4 APIs, and one

SSL client auth support in TC 3.x and 4.x

2002-09-08 Thread Christopher Todd
Is SSL client auth supported in versions of Tomcat prior to 4.x? In looking over the source code, I can see that in TC 4.1.10, Realm.authenticate(X509Certificate[] certs) authenticates a user based on the certiticate chain that is presented. But in looking through the source for TC 3.3.1, I cann

reporting security problems

2002-09-07 Thread Christopher Todd
According to the Jakarta website, security problems for Jakarta projects should be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A colleague of mine and I are researching a potential security issue in Tomcat, and I wanted to confirm that we should use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to report the issue, once our research is c