Re: HttpURLconnection, POST & Authentication

[Michael Becke]

Yes, this class unfortunately serves little purpose.  As specified in 
the JavaDocs it only acts as a wrapper for an already executed 
HttpMethod.  It really only provides access for querying an HttpClient 
response with the java.net API.

Mike

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Zulfi Umrani wrote:

Thanks for the info. I believe you have a HttpURLConnection class which
is a wrapper on java.net.HttpURLConnection. Wouldn't that work to do
POST+Authentication?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/9/2003 8:51:06 PM >>>
Hello again,
HttpClient works differently to HttpURLConnection because despite
initial impressions they do different things.  If you want the ability
to change between Http libraries, you need to provide an abstraction
layer in the form of a single class that handles all the HTTP stuff for
your app and then you only have to change that class when you change
libraries (or implement subclasses for different libraries and use the
factory pattern).

So essentially the answer is no, unless you write a wrapper around
HttpClient to map HttpURLConnection type calls to HttpClient calls.
I'm not sure how much success you'll have with that.  I would strongly
urge you to take some time and redesign your Http code so that it's
more flexible and separate as your entire application will likely
benefit as a result.
Regards,

Adrian Sutton.

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 07:34  AM, Zulfi Umrani wrote:

I am trying to do POST using HttpURLConnection. Also I would like to
do
Basic/Digest/NTLM Authentication at the same time. Since most of my
earlier code is done using java.net.HttpURLConnection, I would like
to
maintain the APIs such as getOutputStream(), getInputStream() and
get/setHeader().
Does anyone know how can I do that using the 2.0 version?
Thanks,
Zulfi

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