RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-10-01 Thread Roland Weber
PROTECTED] 30.09.2003 17:31 Please respond to Commons HttpClient Project To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Prompting user for authentication? Great! I'll look forward to that release then. (BTW, got a rough target date for release?) In the meantime, my current

Re: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-10-01 Thread Ortwin Glück
Roland Weber wrote: Hello David, I've taken the liberty to copy your mail as a comment to the bug: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10794 to get the discussion starting. I want to add some comments of my own, and the discussion should be tracked with the bug. Please use the

RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-10-01 Thread David . Hay
No problem. Thanks for doing that... David -Original Message- From: Roland Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:24 AM To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: RE: Prompting user for authentication? Hello David, I've taken the liberty to copy your mail

Re: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Roland Weber
Project To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Prompting user for authentication? I've been working with HttpClient for the past few days and have it just about working to my liking. I must say I really like how it's designed! However there's one bit that still

Re: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Roland Weber
Hello David, on second thought, if you want some kind of automatic handling, you can try to substitute a different HttpMethodDirector (in 2.1). There's probably no public API for that yet, but it's the perfect place for such stuff. regards, Roland

Re: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Vaughan
One of our engineers developed a patch for HttpClient which allows a callback handler to be registered with an HttpClient instance. A registered handler could prompt the user for username/password. When a handler isn't registered, the HttpClient works as it does now. -Steve On Monday 29

Re: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Adrian Sutton
On 30/09/2003 10:12 PM, Steve Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our engineers developed a patch for HttpClient which allows a callback handler to be registered with an HttpClient instance. A registered handler could prompt the user for username/password. When a handler isn't

RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Kalnichevski, Oleg
Project Subject: Re: Prompting user for authentication? I disagree. It seems counter-intuitive to me that every application that uses HttpClient should have to provide the same block of code to perform a function as fundamental as authentication. HttpClient already handles most authentication

Re: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Vaughan
HttpClient Project Subject: Re: Prompting user for authentication? I disagree. It seems counter-intuitive to me that every application that uses HttpClient should have to provide the same block of code to perform a function as fundamental as authentication. HttpClient already handles most

RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Kalnichevski, Oleg
: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:23 PM To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: Prompting user for authentication? Oleg, I was aware of the bug writeup, but hadn't noticed the target milestone. I see that the status is still NEW, so I assume that work hasn't started. I would be happy to donate

RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread David . Hay
: RE: Prompting user for authentication? Steve, Integrated callbacks are planned for the next release (currently designated as 2.1) http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10794 Oleg -Original Message- From: Steve Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30

RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread Kalnichevski, Oleg
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 17:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Prompting user for authentication? Great! I'll look forward to that release then. (BTW, got a rough target date for release?) In the meantime, my current solution will work, as I don't *have* to support NTLM

RE: Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-30 Thread David . Hay
Ok...thanks! -Original Message- From: Kalnichevski, Oleg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:00 AM To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: RE: Prompting user for authentication? David, Regarding release target dates, all I can do is to offer my guesstimates

Prompting user for authentication?

2003-09-29 Thread David . Hay
I've been working with HttpClient for the past few days and have it just about working to my liking. I must say I really like how it's designed! However there's one bit that still bugs me...authentication of proxy and web servers (response codes 401 and 407). Basically, what I'd like to do is