From 1b4b3315db700609c86ea2566ddf890fb9c6d658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Sdorra <sebastian.sdorra@cloudogu.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:41:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] do not fail on wrong basic authorization header

---
 .../sonia/scm/web/filter/BasicAuthenticationFilter.java  | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/web/filter/BasicAuthenticationFilter.java b/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/web/filter/BasicAuthenticationFilter.java
index a3b6ef5465..342da39d0a 100644
--- a/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/web/filter/BasicAuthenticationFilter.java
+++ b/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/web/filter/BasicAuthenticationFilter.java
@@ -124,13 +124,10 @@ public class BasicAuthenticationFilter extends HttpFilter
     {
       user = securityContext.getUser();
     }
-    else if (Util.isNotEmpty(authentication))
+    else if (Util.isNotEmpty(authentication)
+             && authentication.toUpperCase().startsWith(
+               AUTHORIZATION_BASIC_PREFIX))
     {
-      if (!authentication.toUpperCase().startsWith(AUTHORIZATION_BASIC_PREFIX))
-      {
-        throw new ServletException("wrong basic header");
-      }
-
       user = authenticate(request, response, securityContext, authentication);
     }