Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am testing a webapp (.war) running
in Jetty 7. For demo purposes I want to run this on a public
URL, however I would like not to have the whole world (if they
happen to come across the URL) be able to see it.  Is there a
way to make Jetty require a basic-auth type of authentication
when accessing the webapp (without modifying anything inside the
war, i.e. no edits on the web.xml file)? Or if not the webapp,
then any part of what Jetty provides at port 8080?
share|improve this question Another easier way is to expose the
Jetty webapp behind a reverse proxy like apache or nginx., and
configure basic auth there. –  Shyam Sundar C S Jun 26 '12 at
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