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<p>Use the Login Configuration section of the <code dir="ltr">web.xml</code> Visual Editor to configure authentication for your web application.
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t21 r1c2-t21">No authentication, this is the equivalent of removing the login configuration element from the deployment descriptor.</td>
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<p>Digest</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t21 r1c2-t21">An authentication mechanism in which a Web application authenticates itself to a Web server by sending the server a message digest along with its HTTP request message. The digest is computed by employing a one-way hash algorithm to a concatenation of the HTTP request message and the password of the client. The digest is typically much smaller than the HTTP request and does not contain the password.</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t21 r1c2-t21">An authentication mechanism that uses HTTP over SSL, in which the server and, optionally, the client authenticate each other with a public key certificate that conforms to a standard that is defined by X.509 Public Key Infrastructure.</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t21 r1c2-t21">Lets you select JSP pages for the login and error pages.</td>
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