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Kerberos User Impersonation on Tomcat with Apache

If you are using Kerberos for single sign-on SSO and want to be able to make http requests impersonating the end user to third party systems you can do this using the HttpClient that is part of the Apache HttpComponents project.

ANTLR and JavaCC Parser Generators

The pros and cons of both ANTLR and JavaCC when parsing, small to medium size pieces of code as is often the case with, domain specific languages.

Security Misnomers

In this article I’m not going to talk about IT security, instead I’m going to talk about the fallacies of security in our everyday lives in the real world.

Configuring Tomcat Single Sign-on with SPNEGO (Kerberos & LDAP)

So what is SPNEGO? SPNEGO stands for Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO). It is a mechanism by which an authenticating body negotiates with the authenticator what security protocol to use, for example Kerberos, NTLM, Digest or Basic

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