[undertow-dev] Unprotected areas still trigger auth

Darran Lofthouse darran.lofthouse at jboss.com
Fri Nov 15 07:05:06 EST 2013


On 15/11/13 08:15, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> This is by design. Basically authenticate() will always be called, but sendChallenge() will only be called if authentication is actually required, or if the user supplied credentials that were actually invalid.
>
> Basically the thinking is that is is better to authenticate, so if you are logging requests or whatever you can see who is actually performing them.
>
> Is this causing you problems? Originally we had a way to disable this behaviour, but it seems to have been lost along the way.

The option should still be there although we may not be exposing it. 
Just finishing off some CLI tasks and I am hoping my next task will be 
to complete the authentication mechanism config that I discussed of 
various lists quite a while back now.

This option should be a part of that.

>
> Stuart
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
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>> Sent: Thursday, 14 November, 2013 6:34:58 PM
>> Subject: [undertow-dev] Unprotected areas still trigger auth
>>
>> Accessing an unprotected area triggers our custom
>> AuthenticationMechanism.  Is this by design or by spec mandate?  Or a bug?
>>
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