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Date: 11 Aug 2000 01:22:43 -0000
From: David Hollister <djhollister@hotmail.com>
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Subject: User Authentication for Servlets
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>Number:         6407
>Category:       mod_auth-any
>Synopsis:       User Authentication for Servlets
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 10 18:30:00 PDT 2000
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>Originator:     djhollister@hotmail.com
>Release:        1.3
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Windows 2000, Apache 1.3.12, ApacheJserv/1.1.2, JSDK 2.0, JDK 1.2
>Description:
My problem is exactly like the one in PR#3697.  I added the following lines, per PR#3697, <LOCATION /servlets> Options None....etc </Location> to the jserv.conf file(also tried the httpd.conf with no luck).  When I access a servlet they run without any username and password window appearing.

Security on the sevlets directory is actually a workaround for what I'm really trying to do.  I already have user authentication on the htdocs directory working fine.  However when a simple html calls my servlet it does not pass the user name along to the servlet, ie when I call getRemoteUser it is always null.  

I would prefer to just have the html form send the user name to the servlet, but I don't know how to do that.  If that is not possible, I guess getting user authentication directly on the servlets directory would suffice.

Thank you for any help.
Dave
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