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Re: Easiest and most portable way to authenticate programatically.

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:12:44 PST

HTTPServletRequest#login was added by Servlet 3.0 to address your use case.
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