Skip HttpAuthentication by setting http authentication headers
Khharnai Sreenatha
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Hi,
we have a requirement to bypass HttpAuthentication on a remote server for a protected resource.
I believe this can be done by setting http authentication headers.. is this possible in jsp using some predefined (or) custom tab libraries??
any ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated
Ulf Dittmer
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The authentication headers are sent from the client to the server by the browser; they can't be set by JSPs or servlets. A Java client could set the header as is described here.
What is the purpose of wanting to do this - are you trying to implement a form of single sign-on? [ November 30, 2006: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]
yes we are basically implementing kind of SSO.. Applets are out of question for us...
the reason i was asking jsp was that i can deploy the jsp in my server and make it act as a client connecting to remote server url which can bypass the Authentication
We even tried AJAX way of solving things but since cross domain is restricted it was of NO use.
any ideas any other way of bypassing HTTP Authentication on a remote server URL
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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