A VERY detailed explanation of the problem can be found here.
http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg43337.html
Unfortunately I failed to find response.
In short, I'm looking for a solution to allow Tomcat to handle BASIC
Authentication while utilizing W2K/IIS as a web p
I've been successful in creating a custom JDBCRealm and have extended the
GenericPrincipal. However, when attempting to pull my principal from the
request (request.getUserPrincipal()) and cast to EITHER
org.apache.catalina.realm.GenericPrincipal or my custom principal, I get a
Class Cast Exceptio