Jason, Take a look at the HttpClient tutorial and the authentication guide. That should get you started:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/tutorial.html http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/authentication.html Same code can be found here: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/examples/BasicAuthenticationExample.java?rev=1.1.2.3&only_with_tag=HTTPCLIENT_2_0_BRANCH&view=markup If all this will not help, let me know Oleg On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 20:16, Jason Novotny wrote: > Hi, > > I had been using some crufty code using URLConnection to perform > basic auth to retrieve the list of applications using the Tomcat manager > webapp. I'd like to convert this to use commons-httpclient-2.0.1. > > It should be pretty simple I think-- what is required is to invoke > http://127.0.0.1/manager?list performing basic authentication using name > and password and then I get back a response which has a specific format. > My current code is shown below and I'd like to know what the 3 or 5 > magic lines are to do the same thing using HttpClient. > > Thanks very much, Jason > > try { > String serverName = req.getServerName(); > int serverPort = req.getServerPort(); > URL u = new URL("http://"; + serverName + ":" + serverPort + > "/manager" + command); > URLConnection con = u.openConnection(); > > String up = USERNAME + ":" + PASSWORD; > String encoding = null; > // check to see if sun's Base64 encoder is available. > try { > sun.misc.BASE64Encoder encoder = > (sun.misc.BASE64Encoder) > > Class.forName("sun.misc.BASE64Encoder").newInstance(); > encoding = encoder.encode(up.getBytes()); > } catch (Exception ex) { // sun's base64 encoder isn't available > throw new TomcatManagerException("No > sun.misc.BASE64Encoder availoable in JDK!"); > } > > con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding); > con.setDoInput(true); > con.setUseCaches(false); > con.connect(); > > if (con instanceof HttpURLConnection) { > HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) con; > // test for 401 result (HTTP only) > if (httpConnection.getResponseCode() == > HttpURLConnection.HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED) { > throw new TomcatManagerException("HTTP Authorization > failure!"); > } > } > > BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new > InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream())); > > // get first line > // should be something like: > // OK - some information text > String line = null; > > line = reader.readLine(); > StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line, "-"); > if (tokenizer.countTokens() == 2) { > String rc = tokenizer.nextToken(); > String description = tokenizer.nextToken(); > result = new TomcatWebAppResult(rc, description); > } > > while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { > result.addWebAppDescriptor(line); > } > reader.close(); > > } catch (IOException e) { > throw new TomcatManagerException("Unable to perform command: > ", e); > } > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
