Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty Security Handler

[Amit Kumar <amitku@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Simon,
I ended up writing a custom HttpContext that does the basic  
authentication.

Best,
Amit
On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Simon Kaegi wrote:

> Hi Amit,
>
> You can provide basic yes/no authentication by registering your
> servlets/resources with a custom HttpContext and implementing
> HttpContext.handleSecurity().
> This has been used to support BASIC authentication with UserAdmin  
> although
> I'm not aware of an open source implementation.
>
> If you're doing something a bit more sophisticated where you need to
> decouple your HttpContext from your authentication then you might  
> want to
> write a Servlet Filter. Unfortunately the OSGi Http Service does not
> currently provide Filter support however you can wrap your Servlets  
> and
> Resources fairly easily. See FilterServletAdaptor in "cvsroot/eclipse"
> "equinox-incubator/org.eclipse.equinox.http.helper"
>
> -Simon
>
> equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/30/2007 06:56:55 AM:
>
> > Hello Equinox Developers,
> >
> > I am using Jetty osgi bundle v5_1_11, but now I find myself  needing
> > to add a security handler  to support basic http and looking at the
> > properties exposed in the OSGI/metatype/config.xml, I don't see that
> > it has been exposed (I couldn't find it in the code -Let me know if I
> > missed something). Has anyone worked on providing such a
> > functionality in the  OSGi context? What would you recommend?
> >
> > Best,
> > Amit
> >
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Amit Kumar
Research Programmer
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign IL, 61820
phone: 217-333-4118 fax: 217-244-3302
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