Testing authentication

[Matt Raible <ma...@raibledesigns.com>]

I discovered in the mail archives that cactus now supports form-based
authentication.  I'd like to allow for both form-based and basic
authentication testing in my application.

In the documentation at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/howto_security.html, it mentions coding
for basic authentication using the following code:

public void beginBasicAuthentication(WebRequest theRequest)
{
    theRequest.setRedirectorName("ServletRedirectorSecure");
    theRequest.setAuthentication(
        new BasicAuthentication("testuser", "testpassword"));
}

And in web.xml, you have a url-pattern of:

<url-pattern>/ServletRedirectorSecure</url-pattern>

If my web application uses *.do as it's protected URL, can I configure
this as a RedirectorName?  It seems that this example describes only how
to test cactus/container authentication rather than my application's
configuration.  I can use Xdoclet to switch the two, but I'd rather
configure it to test *.do than the ServletRedirectorySecure.

Also, is there an example of testing form-based authentication?

I'm guessing if I I use a servlet to proxy to form-based authentication,
it might not be need though?

Thanks,

Matt