On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:55:02AM -0700, Pankaj Arora wrote: > Hi, > I want to do preemptive authentication in Http ands as per as the auth > guide > http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/authentication.html#Preemptive_Authe > ntication I have set the option > client.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true); > I observed that in case of the server the basic credentials were sent > out even though server didn't send a 401 reply but in case of proxy the > credentials were sent only when the client received 407 response. > Is there some other option I have to set for doing preemptive > authentication on the proxy too? > Please note that in both cases basic auth is happening. > > Also as I understand the preemptive authentication happens only in basic > authentication as in digest/NTLM we need reply from the server to create > the final response. Is my understanding correct? > > Thanks, > Pankaj Arora > >
Pankaj HttpClient 3.1 is nearing end of life. Consider upfrading to 4.0. Http authentication with HttpClient 4.0 is described in details here: http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/authentication.html Preemptive authentication is described here: http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/authentication.html#d4e942 Oleg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
