Re: [OT] How to get hold of security information from web.xml

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Coppens
Thanks for the reply Mark. In my case that should not really be an issue so I'll go for it. Peter Mark Thomas-14 wrote: > > Peter Coppens wrote: >> Works fine, but what worries me is that I have to make this a priviliged >> web >> app now and I am unclear as to what the consequences of that a

Re: [OT] How to get hold of security information from web.xml

2007-03-05 Thread Mark Thomas
Peter Coppens wrote: > Works fine, but what worries me is that I have to make this a priviliged web > app now and I am unclear as to what the consequences of that are. The Tomcat > doc is fairly brief on the meaning of the privileged attribute of the > context element so that did not reallly help.

Re: [OT] How to get hold of security information from web.xml

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Coppens
After peeking into the tomcat manager webapp I have found a way of getting there 1. Define the webapp context with privileged is true 2. Have the servlet extend ContainerServlet and get hold of the unwrapped Context when setWrapper is called. Works fine, but what worries me is that I have to ma