Why request.getRemoteUser() returns NULL ?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=842151 Created: Apr 17, 2002 Author: Mikkel Bruun (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=771030) Question originally posed by Muhammad Asif (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=301509 As specified by the documentation, this method returns the login of the user making this request, if the user has been authenticated, or null if the user has not been authenticated. The authentication, in this case, is the http authentication.