basic authorization servlet with acl file

[davy nolan]

Hi,
Does anybody have any ideas on how to go about using a servlet for basic authorization , with the iplanet acl, or any acl file?
It's the acl part that i'm particularly stuck on.Was able to run a sample basic authorization serlvet with just the username, password lookup in the program, but i have to use the Iplanet acl file!
Any help would be very much appreciated,
Cheers,
Davy

[Mike Curwen]

Is this iPlanet App Server? iPlanet Web Server? and the version as well.. iWS 4.1 -> 6.0 differs greatly.

I'm pretty frustrated with basic authentication myself. iAS is the most difficult, and I hear iWS isn't much better...

[davy nolan]

Hi,
I'm using IPlanet Web server enterprise edition version 6. I Can't find anything from Iplanet with regards to using their Acl file with a servlet!

If you have any ideas, it would be much appreciated!
Cheers

[David O'Meara]

Rather than using Basic Authentication, the lastest version also supports (google search) Form Based Authentication. This is easier since it is essentially a case of 'configure and forget', but when we did it, it was almost impossible to find any documentation for it...
Dave.

[Kareem Gad]

Davy,
I noticed that you said that you're using iPlanet Enterprise version 6.0 .. that's what i have .. i just downloaded it to upgrade from the ORION web/application server ..
I need to know some info on how to set it up .. as in where is the doc root .. where is the WEB-INF to where i should put my servlets
if u can direct me to a useful resource page.
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KaReEm

[davy nolan]

Karem,
Try http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/50/servlets/contents.htm