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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "Angelov, Rossen" <Ro...@thomsonmedia.com> on 2004/09/24 16:33:13 UTC

basic authentication and custom 401 error page

Hi,
We are running our applications on Tomcat 4 and 5. On both versions we are
having problems with the basic authentication.

The problem is that I haven't found a way to overwrite the default 401 error
page with a custom page.
If I add an error-page element in web.xml for error 401
        <error-page>
                <error-code>401</error-code>
                <location>/err401.html</location>
        </error-page>
then the username/password window is completely ignored and the err401.html
page displayed.

I searched the archives and different forums but there are a lot of people
asking for help with similar problems without any responses.
I found two reported bugs related to that issue: 12194 and 22617 for tomcat
3 and 4

I didn't find any bugs for tomcat 5 but it still not working for me.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ross

"This communication is intended solely for the addressee and is
confidential and not for third party unauthorized distribution."

Re: basic authentication and custom 401 error page

Posted by Gaurav Vaish <ga...@gmail.com>.
Hi Ross,

  Simply adding an error page will not do. You need to have a servlet
that will set the status of the response-page as "403"
(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED)

   Look at the code-implementation of Security-Filter. It's good.
   http://sf.net/projects/securityfilter


HTH

Happy Hacking,
Gaurav Vaish
http://www.mastergaurav.org
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:33:13 -0500, Angelov, Rossen
<ro...@thomsonmedia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We are running our applications on Tomcat 4 and 5. On both versions we are
> having problems with the basic authentication.
> 
> The problem is that I haven't found a way to overwrite the default 401 error
> page with a custom page.
> If I add an error-page element in web.xml for error 401
>        <error-page>
>                <error-code>401</error-code>
>                <location>/err401.html</location>
>        </error-page>
> then the username/password window is completely ignored and the err401.html
> page displayed.
> 
> I searched the archives and different forums but there are a lot of people
> asking for help with similar problems without any responses.
> I found two reported bugs related to that issue: 12194 and 22617 for tomcat
> 3 and 4
> 
> I didn't find any bugs for tomcat 5 but it still not working for me.
> 
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ross
> 
> "This communication is intended solely for the addressee and is
> confidential and not for third party unauthorized distribution."
> 
>

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