Bug 31683 - It should be documented that JDBCRealm doesn't support digest authentication
Summary: It should be documented that JDBCRealm doesn't support digest authentication
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 5
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Webapps:Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.3
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2004-10-12 23:35 UTC by Hontvari Jozsef
Modified: 2004-11-16 19:05 UTC (History)
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Description Hontvari Jozsef 2004-10-12 23:35:20 UTC 
The realm documentaion e.g.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/realm.html doesn't
mention that JDBCRealm (and DataSourceRealm) currently cannot support DIGEST
authentication.

There is an old bug report, bug#19767, which analysis the problem in detail:
some basic functions which are required for the Digest authentication are not
implemented. Based on google search several people were affected by the problem.
Moreover, there isn't any kind of error message or log entry which could help, 
this makes the problem more severe.
Comment 1 Yoav Shapira 2004-10-13 18:57:20 UTC 
Care to submit a doc patch?
Comment 2 Matthew Moodie 2004-10-22 20:40:42 UTC 
The user database implementation in Tomcat 5.0.29 doesn't seem to work with
DIGEST authentication.
Comment 3 Yoav Shapira 2004-10-29 13:44:10 UTC 
OK, docs clarified.  Thanks for your suggestion.