Embedded Jetty serving static content with form authentication

Dear all,

I try to use the Forms-Based authentication within an embedded Jetty 6.1.7 project.

That's why I need to serve servlets and html (login.html) under the same context to make authentication work. I don't want to secure the hole application since different context should need different roles. The jetty javadoc states that a ContextHandlerCollection can handle different handlers for one context but I don't get it to work. My sample ignoring the authentication stuff will not work, why?

ContextHandlerCollection contexts = new ContextHandlerCollection();

// serve html       
Context ctxADocs= new Context(contexts,"/ctxA",Context.SESSIONS);
ctxADocs.setResourceBase("d:\\tmp\\ctxA");
ServletHolder ctxADocHolder= new ServletHolder();
ctxADocHolder.setInitParameter("dirAllowed", "false");    
ctxADocHolder.setServlet(new DefaultServlet());
ctxADocs.addServlet(ctxADocHolder, "/");   

// serve a sample servlet
Context ctxA = new Context(contexts,"/ctxA",Context.SESSIONS);  

ctxA.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new SessionDump()), "/sda");
ctxA.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new DefaultServlet()), "/");

contexts.setHandlers(new Handler[]{ctxA, ctxADocs});

// end of snippet

Any helpful thought is welcome!

Thanks.

Okami

From stackoverflow Okami

• Use the web application descriptor:

  Paste this in to your web.xml:

  <login-config>
      <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
  </login-config>
  <security-role>
      <role-name>MySiteRole</role-name>
  </security-role>
  
  <security-constraint>
      <display-name>ProtectEverything</display-name>
      <web-resource-collection>
       <web-resource-name>ProtectEverything</web-resource-name>
       <url-pattern>*.*</url-pattern>
       <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
      </web-resource-collection>
      <auth-constraint>
       <role-name>MySiteRole</role-name>
      </auth-constraint>
  </security-constraint>
  
  <security-constraint>
      <web-resource-collection>
       <web-resource-name>ExcludeLoginPage</web-resource-name>
       <url-pattern>/login.html</url-pattern>
      </web-resource-collection>
      <user-data-constraint>
       <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
      </user-data-constraint>
  </security-constraint>
  

  Without authentication this will hide everything but the login.html.

  Okami : Thanks, but it has to be embedded. I will refine my question.
  From Eduard Wirch

• Finally I got it right, solution is to use latest jetty 6.1.12 rc2. I didn't check out what they changed - I'm just happy that it works now.

  From Okami