[FLUME-698] Document how to use jetty settings to secure different servlets

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.5
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 02/Jul/11 22:00
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 10:34
• Resolved: 05/Nov/14 10:34

Description

During mavenization, the web applets were refactored into .WAR projects. One of the major benefits of this is the ability to add security and authorization settings to access these pages via configuration as opposed to code modification.

This link is pointed to by Nathan Milford:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/How+to+Configure+Security+with+Embedded+Jetty

Issue Links

• is related to: FLUME-678 Enable configuration to control the jetty server.