Adrian, With the present implementation of the authentication challenge parser
Basic realm="realm", test will produce param name: 'test', param value: null, whereas Basic realm="realm", test= will produce param name: 'test', param value: '' I think such behavior is correct. Do you see it differently? Oleg PS: I tested the parser with the following test case public void testStuff() { String challenge = "Basic realm=\"realm\", test1, test2 = "; String scheme = null; Map elements = null; try { scheme = AuthChallengeParser.extractScheme(challenge); elements = AuthChallengeParser.extractParams(challenge); } catch (MalformedChallengeException e) { fail("Unexpected exception: " + e.toString()); } assertEquals("basic", scheme); assertEquals("realm", elements.get("realm")); assertEquals(null, elements.get("test1")); assertEquals("", elements.get("test2")); } -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:31 AM To: Commons Project Subject: Challenge Parser Changes Hi all, Somewhere along the way, probably for a good reason, AuthChallengeParser was changed so that a challenge string like: Basic realm="test", noValue would parse so that in the returned Map, "noValue" would equate to an empty string instead of null as it previously did. I only notice this because I've got a test sitting around for it here that I haven't checked in yet and it broke. I just wanted to check what the actual behaviour should be. If it were intended as an external API I'd expect the value to be null so there's a distinction between noValue and noValue="" but since it's mostly an internal API that's public defaulting to an empty string would be okay (and may be required by the spec?). Regards, Adrian Sutton. ---------------------------------------------- Intencha "tomorrow's technology today" Ph: 38478913 0422236329 Suite 8/29 Oatland Crescent Holland Park West 4121 Australia QLD www.intencha.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]