[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBSEAM-2558) HTTP BASIC authentication support is broken

[Pete Muir (JIRA)]

     [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2558?page=all ]

Pete Muir updated JBSEAM-2558:
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    Component/s: Security
                     (was: Core)

> HTTP BASIC authentication support is broken
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>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-2558
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2558
>             Project: JBoss Seam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Security
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.1.CR1, 2.0.0.GA, 2.0.1.CR2, 2.0.1.GA
>         Environment: JBoss AS 4.2.2GA, Seam 2.0.0GA
>            Reporter: Alan Feng
>
> The class org.jboss.seam.web.AuthenticationFilter, which provides HTTP BASIC authentication support, throws exception and never performs the authentication. 
> If the user access the site the first time and the page accessed is protected by HTTP BASIC authentication, a NPE will occur from the AuthenticationFilter.processBasicAuth() method. 
> In addition, the AuthenticationFilter.processBasicAuth() method does not invoke the identity.authenticate() method to actually perform the authentication, although it parses the BASIC authentication headers properly.
> Please see the related forum post for detailed description of the problem and the proposed fixes.

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