Try the following
String user = "user:password";
String encoded = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode(user.getBytes());
URL url = new URL(url_string);
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);
Alasdair
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scot Mcphee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:10
> To: JDJList
> Subject: [jdjlist] username/password in java.net.URL?
>
>
> I am trying to put the username and password required by a
> server into the
> java.net.URL class so I can get some data off a password
> protected server.
> The URL class always returns a FileNotFound exception. There
> doesn't seem to
> be any way to set the authentication information other than
> in the full URL
> string as per the standard way;
>
> http://user:password@hostname/path
>
> the URL works great in either IE or Mozilla. However this code;
>
> String location = "http://user:password@hostname/path";;
> URL url = new URL(location);
> URLConnection urlC = url.openConnection();
> urlC.connect();
>
> always produces the exception;
>
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://user:password@hostname/path
>
> If I try this;
>
> url.getAuthority();
>
> it returns;
>
> user:password@hostname
>
> I've the various other separators in RFC2396 but all others return
> "MalformedURLException". The individual components
> constructor of the URL
> class doesn't include the authority info as a separate item.
> The JavaDoc has
> a 'set' method but it's a protected member.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I can progress further? Do I
> have to subclass
> it? Is there another technique?
>
> thanks
> scot.
>
>
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