> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
> Subject: Re: of the different methods to get a user-id
>
> > I would expect
> > request.getRemoteUser() == request.getUserPrincipal().getName()
> > But there no literature which says that must be so.
>
> And the reality shows it isn't.
> So somehow there must be two distinct underlying "thingies" in Tomcat
> where the two different answers are coming from.

As Pid surmised, it's not Tomcat that is giving you different answers.  Here's 
Tomcat's implementation of HttpServletRequest.getRemoteUser():

    public String getRemoteUser() {
        if (userPrincipal != null) {
            return (userPrincipal.getName());
        } else {
            return (null);
        }
    }

[Aside: Don't know why people think return statements need parentheses; maybe 
they get paid for programming based on the number of characters used.]

 - Chuck


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