Unable to authenticate a servlet request

[weiyiwang-dotcms]

Parent Issue

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User Story

As a user, I want to be able to download a file from dotCMS through an API with authentication, so I can programmatically retrieve files from dotCMS.

Acceptance Criteria

Allow for requests to the servlet to accept authentication information, so that users can have their resources protected behind authentication, but still access them via an authenticated API request

Proposed Objective

Technical User Experience

Proposed Priority

Priority 2 - Important

External Links... Slack Conversations, Support Tickets, Figma Designs, etc.

https://dotcms.slack.com/archives/C01N0AU1NUC/p1725401158867469 https://dotcms.freshdesk.com/a/tickets/27408

Assumptions & Initiation Needs

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Quality Assurance Notes & Workarounds

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Sub-Tasks & Estimates

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[weiyiwang-dotcms]

One additional detail:

the servlet that serves the file only checks the user like this final User user = PortalUtil.getUser(req);

no authentication is performed, but just gets the user from the session.

[github-actions[bot]]

PRs:

• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/pull/31149

[gortiz-dotcms]

Passed internal QA

Able to get a binary file through API with auth