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[jira] [Commented] (HTTPCLIENT-1748) When run in java applet, SystemDefaultCredentialsProvider fails to get authentication from Authenticator

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Oleg Kalnichevski commented on HTTPCLIENT-1748:
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bq. is it ok to use httpRequest.getRequestLine().getUri() instead ?

Yes, it is. 

Oleg

> When run in java applet, SystemDefaultCredentialsProvider fails to get authentication from Authenticator
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1748
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1748
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: HttpClient
>    Affects Versions: 4.5
>         Environment: Windows, application running in a java applet started by firefox, connection to a remote server via a squid proxy with basic authentication
>            Reporter: Sébastien Caille
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 5.0
>
>
> Hello,
> The java applets are deprecated, but the issue may impact other use cases.
> During a POST call made from a java applet via a proxy server with basic authentication, SystemDefaultCredentialsProvider.getSystemCreds(...) calls Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication, which wrongly returns "null" authentication.
> The java applet console shows that a NullPointerException was ignored.
> I managed to fix the issue by providing the following values to Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication (getSystemCreds is currently providing null for those ones ):
>   prompt = authscope.getRealm()
>   url = context.getAttribute(HttpClientContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST)
> Both values are needed ( prompt == null && url != null -> dialog box asking for credentials, prompt != null && url == null -> crashes firefox)
> Note that when downloading the applet jar files, the java is providing values for all the parameters of Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication (according to a breakpoint in requestPasswordAuthentication).
> Thanks



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