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Antonio,

On 2/12/2010 6:12 AM, banto wrote:
> my tomcat conf has basic auth and i have a the following in web.xml
> 
> <login-config>
>  <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
>  <realm-name>The HTML Application</realm-name>
> </login-config

That is HTTP BASIC AUTH.

> now i´m seeing that the password during the auth is digested and has value.
> 
> Authorization: Basic YW50b25pbzpwYXNzd29yZA==
>
> My problem is that i cannot understand where it comes from...

That's base64(username + ':' + password). Your username is 'antonio' and
your password is 'password' in this case.

> I´m trying all the combination, i mean i´m digesting
> 
> user:realm:password with all of the algorithms but i cannot get that value.

You are confusing the above with HTTP DIGEST AUTH, which requires
md5(user + ':' + realm + ':' + password)

Along with Konstantin's reference, you should also read this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http_digest_authentication

- -chris
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