Re: how ssl can be used to transfer login data?

>hello
>
>can you tell me how to use ssl to send some important data from web page to
>servlet?

Hi

You must challange the browser so that it is forced to use Basic Authentication, which is TOTALLY secure over SSL. So somthing like

response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=My-Realm");

To parse the resulting Authorization header you should use the PrincipalParser which can be found at

http://simpleweb.sourceforge.net/java2html/simple/util/parse/PrincipalParser.java.html

This will parse the result of request.getHeader("Authorization"). You can find an example of this use at.

http://simpleweb.sourceforge.net/demo/GatewayService.java


Hope this helps
Niall

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