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Jersey and (dynamic) basic authentication?

From: Casper Bang <casper_at_jbr.dk>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:25:09 +0100

I am using an authorization scheme where username and md5 hash of the
password is the top-level context of my service:

http://www.mysite.com/myjerseyapp/{username}:{md5}/

And it occurred to me I might be able to use basic http authentication
instead to conform to the existing standard. This would also automatically
pop-up an authorization dialog if people access my resource without
specifying credentials:

http://{username}:{md5}@www.mysite.com/myjerseyapp/

However I can't find an example of setting this up with Jersey. I can add
some security-constraints to Tomcat's web.xml and use static user info, but
how would I intercept and pass along credentials to be authorized
dynamically, say in a database?

Thanks in advance,
Casper