I'm building an app using Apache CXF (JAX-RS), running in WebLogic 10.3.2.
I have a nice set of resource methods that work fine. I now need to implement some sort of authentication/authorization, but it will have to be managed by the application, not the container. I implemented a request handler in CXF that should allow me to look at the principal and credentials that were sent in the Authorization header. However, when I configured my
test client to send a manually-constructed Authorization header (which I obtained from a tutorial on basic auth), my request got a 401 back without even getting into my application code on the server.
That tells me that I probably have to implement some of the "security"-related elements in my application's web.xml, although I just need to tell it to let everyone in, but give me the principal/credentials that were sent. I started the construct the "security-constraint" and "login-config" elements, but I'm not sure what minimal settings I need to get me past this obstacle.
I've started with the following, but I'm not sure what I need:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>myapp</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/rest</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
</login-config>