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Posted to java-dev@axis.apache.org by Davanum Srinivas <di...@yahoo.com> on 2003/07/22 23:12:28 UTC

Re: Axis HTTPSender

Please open a bug report in bugzilla. If you could send in a patch that would be great as well.
(http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?AxisProjectPages/SubmitPatches)

Thanks,
dims

--- arh14@cornell.edu wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>   You two are listed as authors of the HTTPSender class in Axis, and as 
> I've asked before on the Axis list with little response, I'll ask 
> directly:  Is there a reason that all significant HTTP headers are being 
> explicitly and forcefully stripped (line ~309) from the user-supplied HTTP 
> header hashtable on outgoing messages?  This is very irritating, especially 
> since we rely on the HTTP Authorization header to implement custom 
> Kerberos-based authentication.  Is this arbitrary?  Does the spec require 
> this?
> 
> excerpt:
> 
> } else if (key.equalsIgnoreCase(HTTPConstants.HEADER_AUTHORIZATION)) {
>     //ignore
> 
> 
> Aaron Hamid
> CIT/I&D Cornell University


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