[jetty-users] programmatic basic auth

[Dimitar Georgiev <dimitar.georgiev.bg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Colleagues,

What is the correct way to perform programmatic basic authentication in 
Jetty?

My usecase is I want to implement a rest service which logs the user 
when passed a username and password.
My service has its own specific contract to handle error situations, and 
is called with jquery ajaxRequest, so APIs which would mess with the 
servlet response such as 
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.authenticate(HttpServletResponse) 
are not an option.

Should I go ahead and use HttpServletRequest.login(String, String) ,  or 
is there a container-specific approach which is more appropriate?

Thanks in advance.

Bes Regards, Dimitar