On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:25 AM, ben.mail_at_vtxfree.ch wrote:
> I have a question how to implement Authentication using Jersey:
>
> Is there any way/plan to support (Basic/Digest...) Authentication in
> jsr311/Jersey? Or is this the responsibility of the application
> parsing the HttpHeades.getRequestHeaders() MultivalueMap?
>
>
>
While it would be possible to implement basic or digest auth in an
application, we expect that in most cases authentication will be
handled by the container, e.g. by a servlet container. See the thread
"Security Question" for an example of how to do that in a servlet
container.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.