Details for auth-method

Tag name<auth-method>
Location/web-app/login-config
Fileweb.xml
The auth-method element is used to configure the authentication mechanism for the web application. As a prerequisite to gaining access to any web resources which are protected by an authorization constraint, a user must have authenticated using the configured mechanism. Legal values for this element are "BASIC", "DIGEST", "FORM", or "CLIENT-CERT".