Saminda Abeyruwan <saminda 'at' opensource.lk> writes:
[...]
> In my servlet, i have access to *HttpServletRequest*
>
> say using following,
>
> HashMap headerMap = new HashMap();
> Enumeration e = request.getAttributeNames();
> while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
> String field = (String) e.nextElement();
> headerMap.put(field, request.getAttribute(field));
> }
>
> i fill the headerMap. If Authorization header is avialable, *headerMap*
> will contain it.
>
> So if httpclient contains an API to extract the username and password
> using authorization header that would be really handy.
HttpClient is a for doing HTTP *client* stuff, not server stuff.
Use org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 for easy base64
decoding, the same library httpclient uses for encoding (and
decoding in the NTLM class actually ;p).
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