Issue

Follow below steps to reproduce this issue.

• Use javax.servlet.http api in the code and use request.login(), request.logout() and request.authenticate() methods for authentication.

• Refer this link for implementation of programmatic authentication.

• open any browser (which supports multiple tab feature), and login to the application.

• Try to open new tab in same browser and try to login with different user in that tab by keeping the session of first user alive.

• while trying to login to the same browser using different tab and different user credentials, exception will be thrown.

[stderr ] javax.servlet.ServletException: JBWEB000053: Failed to authenticate a principal
[stderr ]   at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.login(Request.java:3228)
[stderr ]   at org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.login(RequestFacade.java:1009)