Basic Authentication Does Not Work Properly

[Kashinath Roy]

Inordere to implement BASIC authentication having following configurationPutting this in tomcat user.xml

<role rolename="Admin"/>
<role rolename="Member"/>
<role rolename="Guest"/>

<user username="admin1" password="admin1" roles="Admin,Member,Guest"/>
<user username="knroy" password="knroy" roles="Member"/>
<user username="guest1" password="guest1" roles="Guest"/>

putting this in myproject1--->web.xml

<security-role>
<role-name>Admin</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
<role-name>Member</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
<role-name>Guest</role-name>
</security-role>


<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Testing</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/validate/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>Admin</role-name>
<role-name>Member</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
</login-config>


and restart tomcat 6 ----->run Project---> asking login prompt---->username: admin1 password:admin1--->HTTP 401 error
[ Under Windows XP with running in localhost:8080 ]

Why it is not working despite follwing all the steps as mentioned above

[Arshad Noor]

Anytime you have a client-server application that gives you problems, supplying just the client-side error message rarely helps you get an answer. Have you looked at the server's log to see what error is reported? If you cannot make out what the error means, post the server-side error message on the forum; you might get a solution or a pointer to the solution.

Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.

[Kashinath Roy]

Please find error message

HTTP Status 401 -

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type Status report

message

description This request requires HTTP authentication ().


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Apache Tomcat/6.0.35