The DefaultAuthenticator class getUserFromBasicAuthentication method should be using setError instead of setStatus

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      According to jali in servlets versions >= 2.4 a user of setStatus is supposed to provide a context while setError does not. JIRA works around this issue by overriding the getUserFromBasicAuthentication method and calling setError instead of setStatus.

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            David Black
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