Authentication handling in WebLogic 8.1 SP 4

Question

I have a servlet, MyServlet, running in WebLogic 8.1 SP 4 that creates another server in the init() method that listens for incoming connections on a different port than WebLogic's 7001; let's say it listens to port 5000. This server is similar to the O'Reilly's DaemonHttpServlet (http://www.stanford.edu/group/coursework/docsTech/oreilly/com.oreilly.servlet.DaemonHttpServlet.html); I'll refer to this server as HttpServer.
I created a security realm for MyServlet for Basic authentication. So if a client wants to go to MyServlet it has to authenticate itself using Basic authentication. This all works fine! However, at this point HttpServer that listens port 5000 is not part of the mentioned realm according to WebLogic. For MyServlet WebLogic takes care of the whole authentication process, that is, the initial request to MyServlet and the following response containing the Basic challenge are not going through MyServlet but are handled by WebLogic.
As the client (user agent) does not know that HttpServer is part of the same realm (as I would like it to be), it will not send its credentials that it used to logon to MyServlet to authenticate itself to HttpServer, because the URL is different at the port part of the URL.
I would like to mimic that HttpServer IS part of the same realm MyServlet is in, but I don't want to hardcode the response saying it needs to be a certain specific realm. How can I query User, Group, Realm information stored in WebLogic? Are there MBeans I should look at? Can I use JAAS to hook into WebLogic somehow? Can I use JAAS to handle the Base64-encoded username-password to the Basic challenge send in the HTTP request?

Answer 1

b b schrieb:
Hi:
I am confused about something, I am running weblogic 8.1 SP4 on the [sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R] box and trying to deploy a normal webapp. It took like 2 minutes to finish deployment (nothing else was running on the box). however if I deploy the same webapp onto my laptop, it is really quick (<30secs).
I thought it might be the problem with that particular un box. So I tried to deploy the same webapp onto another sun box - [sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240]. The results were the same (over 2minutes).
Can anybody shed some lights on why this is happening?
Thank you very much!Have You checked the XML-switches ?
(web.xml/weblogic.xml/keepgenerate/precompile)
How ist the "Staging Mode" (nostage) of Your application ?
Regards Ruedi :-)