Troubleshooting

Servlet Authentication

Q1:Why doesn't the servlet engine prompt me for authentication information?
Most likely it's because the servlet engine doesn't support the kind of authentication you want. If the servlet engine doesn't support authentication, you might still be able to user the Web server's authentication if the servlet engine is just acting as a plug-in for a Web server, such as Apache or Netscape. Another possibility is that even though you changed the servlet configuration to require authentication, you might have forgotten to restart the servlet engine to pick up the changes.

Certificate Problems

Q1:Why doesn't the servlet engine pass me the certificate information when I use SSL?
Very few servlet engines support the ...

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