jakartaee / jakartaee/security

Multiple authentication mechanisms simultaneously

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Description

I'm curious whether there has been any talk of supporting multiple authentication mechanisms simultaneously? The use case would be writing a JAX-RS endpoint that provides an API, some HTML/JS that provides an UI on top that API, and then bundling them together as a single application. I would then like to offer BASIC authentication for "machines" interacting directly with the API and FORM-based authentication for "humans" interacting indirectly via the UI.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reading the issue discussion and reviewing how Jakarta Security handles the JAX-RS API alongside the HTML/JS UI; done would require a clearly defined, agreed approach for simultaneous BASIC and FORM authentication.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
api, authentication, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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