Hello Oleg,
from a technical standpoint, host and port would be sufficient
to differentiate between a proxy and HTTP server on the same
machine. But if a dialog is presented to a user, that dialog
should state whether the user is supposed to enter uid/pwd
for the proxy or for the host. Most users will not be able to
make this distinction based on the port number. I wonder
whether most programmers can? ;-)
cheers,
Roland
"Kalnichevski, Oleg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29.01.2004 15:08
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Subject: Why on earth do we differenciate between proxy and
host credentials?
While going through the Odi's latest patch, I got hit by an idea. Why on
earth do we differentiate between proxy and host credentials? At the end
of the day do we care? The distinction between proxies and target hosts is
not relevant from the HttpState standpoint as long as credentials can be
uniquely identified by realm/host/port. All we need to ability to
differentiate credentials by authentication realm, host AND port. I think
we would make API much simpler and authentication code much cleaner by
deprecating HttpState#get/setProxyCredentials stuff for good.
Oleg
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