Hi to all,
after many problems, a first working implementation is ready (but i
need some time to so more tests, some performance enhancements, and
more important a lot of cleanup and simplifications ...), but I'd like
to ask is it will be possible to do some modifications also in the
Query class (and add an utility method in any subclass, for retrieving
the HTTP method name), let me explain in detail:
- DigestAuthentication in not possible in a pre-emptive way (like
Basic Authentication), because needs some data from the first
response, so i have to make the call (also if i know that the first
time is will return a 401 error), read authentication hints from the
header, calculate the authentication data, and then retry the
connection with the right data inside (and this concept currently was
not handled nor implemented).
I have already a rough implementation also for this, but maybe someone
has a better idea ...
- now i need to put into responseProperties the authentication hints
from the first response, ok, but for a more general solution, maybe
could help to put into responseProperties other header elements too
(or maybe all).
For example, could help the ability to get the Content-type, the
Content-encoding, etc ...
- i added a method
public abstract String getMethod();
and put the implementation in any subclass ... this is required for
the DigestAuthentication (by RFC), and could help also in other cases
...
- i added a public int getStatus() method and moved the related
variable out of the method, could help ... and maybe also a
getMessage() with the returned message could be useful, at least to
have more info when needed
Some part of the work have been moved out in two utility classes: MD5
and HexUtils, i put them in the core subproject (could be useful also
in other parts), but maybe they could be moved in the web subproject.
The test uses my new ByteArraySerializer, to being able to download any content.
Ah, one last thing, some little parts of the code are derived from one
class in Tomcat and one class in HttpClient, i have put these
references in the initial comment of the source, is this enough ?
For tests, now it's working with Apache 2.x and mod_digest , if
someone is interested (at least to try) i could send some info to
setup the stuff. Next tests are on Tomcat. But all this Server-side
stuff is not included in sources, is it ok ?
What do you think ?
Next week I'll send the related sources.
Thanks,
Sandro
