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Colin,

On 1/13/2010 4:33 PM, cgswtsu78 wrote:
> Thanks for the info below.  The problem I have is that the authentication is
> already being done on the apache side as my java/tomcat web application
> lives within an apache perl application.  I'm just trying to prevent anyone
> from being able to deep dive directly to the java/tomcat application via the
> URL (i.e. http GET is the only issue).  I was wondering if there is any way
> that tomcat can check a flag to see if the user is auth'd and if not
> redirect somewhere.  Maybe I'm too narrowly focused here...

If you use mod_jk to proxy requests from httpd to Tomcat, you should be
getting authentication information passed across the wire to Tomcat.
You'll need to set tomcatAuthentication="false" on your AJP <Connector>
in order to have this information sent from httpd.

- -chris
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