Re: HTTP AUTH

2004-05-26 Thread Bill Barker
SH Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Can you explain yourself here? It is not obvious to me. How does the number of users make any difference here. Just set up BASIC Auth in web.xml. You don't have to define your users and roles in web.xml, if

Re: HTTP AUTH

2004-05-26 Thread Jacob Kjome
Of course he can also just use BASIC Auth and do request.getRemoteUser() and do whatever he wants with that. No realms needed there. The original question was why was he setting up BASIC Auth programatically when he can specify it in web.xml. It sounds like he uses some custom authentication

RE: HTTP AUTH

2004-05-25 Thread Mark Thomas
How about use web.xml to configure your security rather than doing it by hand? That way tomcat does all the hard work. Mark -Original Message- From: SH Solutions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:37 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: HTTP AUTH Hi I

RE: HTTP AUTH

2004-05-25 Thread SH Solutions
Hi How about use web.xml to configure your security rather than doing it by hand? That way tomcat does all the hard work. We have a complex CMS system with about 35000 users. We obviously do NOT want to use web.xml. Regards, Steffen

RE: HTTP AUTH

2004-05-25 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 11:58 PM 5/25/2004 +0200, you wrote: Hi How about use web.xml to configure your security rather than doing it by hand? That way tomcat does all the hard work. We have a complex CMS system with about 35000 users. We obviously do NOT want to use web.xml. Can you explain yourself here? It is

RE: HTTP AUTH

2004-05-25 Thread SH Solutions
Hi Can you explain yourself here? It is not obvious to me. How does the number of users make any difference here. Just set up BASIC Auth in web.xml. You don't have to define your users and roles in web.xml, if that's what you are implying. Alright, that is what I was thinking. So, is it