Use the Login Configuration section of the web.xml
Visual Editor to configure authentication for your web application.
Element | Description |
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None |
No authentication, this is the equivalent of removing the login configuration element from the deployment descriptor. |
Digest |
An authentication mechanism in which a Web application authenticates itself to a Web server by sending the server a message digest along with its HTTP request message. The digest is computed by employing a one-way hash algorithm to a concatenation of the HTTP request message and the password of the client. The digest is typically much smaller than the HTTP request and does not contain the password. |
Client Certificate |
An authentication mechanism that uses HTTP over SSL, in which the server and, optionally, the client authenticate each other with a public key certificate that conforms to a standard that is defined by X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. |
Basic |
You can type the name of the security realm in the Realm Name field. There is no validation for this value. |
Form |
Lets you select JSP pages for the login and error pages. |
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