Well, if it were BASIC Auth, then you'd just do this (over SSL, of course, to hide the clear text username/password)...
https://myusername:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If the username and password are valid, there will be no prompt for username or password. You'll get right to the resource. Jake Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The application we are building allows file downloads from our UI. > However, we also want users to be able to download these files using WGET > from a command-line (perhaps as part of a script), like this: > > WGET 192.168.1.1/do/download?id=1 > > However, these file downloads are subject to authentication and should be > restricted to certain user roles. > > We have already implemented a JDBCRealm and everything works very well > within the UI. The problem is that we can't figure out how to get Tomcat > to invoke authentication without a prompt. At first, we thought that > adding "j_username" and "j_password" as part of the URL might do the > trick. No such luck. We looked through the documentation and couldn't > find any suggestions (unless we missed something along the way). > > What we want to be able to do is have the user provide the username and > password as part of the URL, like this: > > WGET 192.168.1.1/do/download?id=1&username=bob&password=secret > > I know that we could always extend Tomcat with our own code, but I'd > really like to avoid having to do that. I haven't been allowing any > platform-specific code into the product and I don't want to start now. The > use of a JDBCRealm was a compromise that was supposed to reduce the coding > effort. Please tell me that there is a way around this issue that doesn't > require coding Tomcat extensions. > > Thanks for any help you guys might be able to give me. > Jonathan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
