Tomcat authentication and specific web app authentication

Question

I config my tomcat with the following configuration in the web.xml. So now I secure all webapps in the folder webapps. The user has to authenticate himself, before he can visit the web apps.

<security-constraint>
  <web-resource-collection>
    <web-resource-name>
      My Application
    </web-resource-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    <http-method>GET</http-method>
    <http-method>PUT</http-method>
  </web-resource-collection>
  <auth-constraint>
    <role-name>demo123</role-name>
    <role-name>admin</role-name>
  </auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
  <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
  <realm-name>Secure Apps</realm-name>
</login-config>

After the user logged in, he can visit the requested web app. My problem: In the web apps the user have to logged in (with Basic authentication), because behind there is a specific server with all server logic. I use REST Webservices to communicate to that server. But I can't call the webservices because it shows me a 401 Unauthorized. If I delete the above configuration in the web.xml, I can call these webservices without problems. Is there a way to secure all webapps in the tomcat another way? I need it because the webapps needs the basic authentication.

For the applications I use spring framework.

Answer 1

我通过更改url模式解决了它。