Enable HTTP Basic Authentication for simple clients

IBM WebSphere Portal provides an HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Intercepton that can be enabled to allow specific clients to log into the portal using HTTP Basic Authentication instead of HTTP Form Based Authentication.

• The HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor
  The HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) can be used to authenticate incoming requests using the HTTP Basic Authentication Protocol described in RFC 2617. This can be useful for clients that are not capable of doing HTTP form-based authentication.
• Configure the HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor
  To configure the HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor according to the requirements, you set its properties.
• Reference: Properties for the Trust Association Interceptor
  The HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor has several configuration properties.
• Enable the HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor
  Depending on the configuration, it might be necessary to enable the HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor. Verify whether the TAI is enabled. You do this in the WAS admin console. If it is not enabled, run the task enable-http-basic-auth-tai-sitesgmt as described in the following.
• HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor in combination with external authentication servers
  When we use the HTTP Basic Authentication Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) with external authentication servers, we can configure the TAI to work for a specific set of requests.

Parent: Securing