Understanding Login Authentication
When you try to access a protected Web resource, the Web container activates the authentication mechanism that has been configured for that resource. You can specify the following authentication mechanisms:
HTTP basic authentication
Form-based login authentication
Client certificate authentication
Mutual authentication
Digest authentication
If you do not specify one of these mechanisms, the user will not be authenticated.
Using HTTP Basic Authentication
Figure 32-2 shows what happens if you specify HTTP basic authentication.
Figure 32-2. HTTP Basic Authentication
With basic authentication, the following things occur: ...
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