Hi Peter,

Did you want to do this change?  We should have a Jira issue somewhere
to keep track of it...

- Les

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1
>
> Me too.  Let's change the BasicHttpAuthenticationFilter to always
> return a UsernamePasswordToken.
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Peter Ledbrook <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>> The question for me is - is this the correct behavior?  If we change
>>> the behavior to allow null return values, and automatically show the
>>> access denied page, the security subsystem (Realm and authentication
>>> listeners, etc) would never be notified that an authentication attempt
>>> was made.  Is this ok?
>>
>> I prefer requiring a valid authentication token, particularly if the
>> token is used with listeners, realms, or anything else.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>

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