BasicCredentialsProvider and authentication on Server

[jax <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,
I am using basic authentication and posting to a httpcore nio 4.3.2 server. 
I am using httpClient 4.3 to create the basic auth as per the example:

CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
                credsProvider.setCredentials(
                        new AuthScope("localhost", 443),
                        new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username",
"password"));

However, I don't see any classes/methods to aid in authentication on the
server side and then found this post.

http://httpcomponents.10934.n7.nabble.com/httpcomponents-authentication-digest-parsing-td153.html

So, should i just add the "Authorization" block in my httpPost object as a
header? Or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks, Jax.



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Re: BasicCredentialsProvider and authentication on Server

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 11:31 -0700, jax wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am using basic authentication and posting to a httpcore nio 4.3.2 server. 
> I am using httpClient 4.3 to create the basic auth as per the example:
> 
> CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
>                 credsProvider.setCredentials(
>                         new AuthScope("localhost", 443),
>                         new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username",
> "password"));
> 
> However, I don't see any classes/methods to aid in authentication on the
> server side and then found this post.
> 
> http://httpcomponents.10934.n7.nabble.com/httpcomponents-authentication-digest-parsing-td153.html
> 
> So, should i just add the "Authorization" block in my httpPost object as a
> header? Or is there a better way to do this?
> 
> Thanks, Jax.
> 

Jax,

For historical reasons [1] HttpCore provides only basic server side
transport components and does not support server side authentication and
state / session management out of the box. This _may_ change in the
future, but for the time being one needs to handle sessions and
authentication manually.

Hope this helps

Oleg 

[1] mainly politics



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