[GERONIMO-5197] Generic Header based authentication support in geronimo

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.7, 2.2.2, 3.0.0
• Component/s: Tomcat
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)

Environment

geronimo tomcat assembly

• Assignee: Ashish Jain
• Reporter: Ashish Jain
• Created: 22/Mar/10 07:53
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 18/Oct/10 07:40

Description

Geronimo should provide a generic header authentication login module which should be able to validate the authentication results passed as http request headers.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: GERONIMO-5413 Documentation of Generic Header based authentication support in geronimo
• relates to: GERONIMO-5652 Generic Header based authentication support in geronimo 2.2 and 3.0