DO NOT REPLY [Bug 8040] New: - need a way to set default credential in HttpState

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need a way to set default credential in HttpState

           Summary: need a way to set default credential in HttpState
           Product: Commons
           Version: Nightly Builds
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: HttpClient
        AssignedTo: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: xiaowei@stratify.com


Currently, each credential in HttpState is associated with a realm. This makes 
perfect sense from a httpclient developer. However, in reallife use, the user 
may not know the name of the realm and just vaguely know that the credential 
for such site is such. So I suggest a way to set the default credential in 
HttpState. When the code calls HttpState.getCredentials(realm), it first lookup 
if there is anything associated with that realm first. If not, it check to see 
if there is some default credential in HttpState. 

The simplest way to accomplish this is intepret credentials associated with 
null realm in setCredentials as the default credential.

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