in response to <a href="../../../../../servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#authenticate(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)"><code>HttpServletRequest.authenticate(HttpServletResponse)</code></a>

 <p>
 Note that by default this method is <strong>always</strong> called for every request, independent of whether
 the request is to a protected or non-protected resource, or whether a caller was successfully authenticated
 before within the same HTTP session or not.

 <p>
 A CDI/Interceptor spec intercepto