Github user sebastiencaille commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/httpclient/pull/52
Hello
At first I tried to provide the proxy's url, but the applet was always
asking for credentials.
It works fine when I provide the request URI.
Then, according to a breakpoint I put in
Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication, the applet plugin uses the url of
the jar files it wants to download.
I just checked the code of the openjdk... It looks like they are doing
that, too
http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/8u40-b25/sun/net/www/protocol/http/HttpURLConnection.java#HttpURLConnection.getHttpProxyAuthentication%28sun.net.www.protocol.http.AuthenticationHeader%29
(line 2223)
My guess is that the other parameters are sufficient to define the realm of
the auth challenge. That one is probably used to strengthen the security in
some use cases (eg to reduce the risks of cross domain calls).
By the way, it looks like providing HTTP_TARGET_HOST is sufficient to fix
my use case, but strictly speaking it should be the entire request URI (but at
the moment I don't know how to get that one)...
Sebastien
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