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Re: FAuthentication Support

From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:42:11 -0500

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.