Basic Authentication access

[francoisal]

I consider using zimbra in my network but I need to authenticate each user with the HTTP "basic-authentication" process and not with a HTML form.

Is such a method already supported in zimbra or does it need to be configured / developped ?

Thanks,

[KevinH]

We don't have basic-auth for the web-app login out of the box but it would be easy to add single sign-on with preauth.
Extending authentication

Our servlets all support basic auth so maybe small hack would be to have users first navigate to a servlet url and get the basic auth prompt then go to the app. Not as clean from a user perspective but should work.

[francoisal]

Thank you for your advises.

I would try the small hack but I would like to understand it :
- which URI should the user call first to have the basic popup
- which URI should it use after ?

In fact, what do you call servlet and what do you call web-app ?

[KevinH]

Try:

https://SERVER/service/home/~/?auth=basic

Then:

https://SERVER/