Re: Testing Portlets in Pluto Portal Driver without Login

The challenge is that pluto uses the underlying servlet container's 
authentication.  As you know, servlet auth requires a challenge/response 
paradigm, and because of that, it's nearly impossible to have a login 
that is not prompted by a request else.

If you're only looking to test portlets, try using the jsp/filter 
approach to portlet deployment and configuring it to not be secure.  You 
can then hit the portal pages for auth.


Any other ideas would be welcome. . .

David

John Lewis wrote:
> Any suggestions on how best to test portlets in Pluto Portal Driver 
> 1.1.3+ without logging in?  Obviously I can comment out the 
> <security-constraint> section in the web.xml and make everything work 
> anonymously, but it would be nice to have access to both authenticated 
> content and unauthenticated content without reconfiguring and restarting.
> 
> The ideal thing would be to have the unauthenticated page contain both 
> the login screen and anonymous portlets, and then have different content 
> once the user logs in.  I know this would add some complexity to the 
> Portal Driver, but I think this is a valid and interesting testing 
> scenario.
> 
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