On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 09:41 +0000, Romstorfer, Georg wrote: > I tried to do Digest authentication with the CachingHttpClient against an IIS > 7 Webserver, but the client enters an infinite loop because the server always > responds with the parameter "stale=true" in the WWW-Authenticate header. > I did some debugging and found out, that the cause is the Via header added by > the CachingHttpClient. So now I can also reproduce it with the not caching > HttpClient when I simply add the Via header to the request. > > Is this behaviour conforming to any standards, a bug in IIS 7 or a bug in the > CachingHttpClient? > > I'm using httpclient-4.5.1
Without re-reading RFC 2617 this looks like a server side issue to me. By responding with 'stale=true' the server effectively asks the client to re-authenticate using a newer 'nonce' value. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org
