Mauro Bartolomeoli created an issue |
Flexible Authentication Filter for gathering credentials from request headers |
Issue Type: |
Improvement |
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Affects Versions: |
2.6.0 |
Assignee: |
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Components: |
Security |
Created: |
07/Nov/14 9:35 AM |
Priority: |
Minor |
Reporter: |
A new AuthenticationFilter is added to get user credentials from request headers in a configurable way (using regex) and use them to authenticate the user with the configured Authentication providers chain. The main use case is sharing session credentials with a proxy front-end such as Apache HTTPD |
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