On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:05:34AM -0700, Pankaj Arora wrote:
> I understand but we are in middle of a release and moving to 4.x is
> major rework due to change in Api's and all.
> Can you please answer my question in 3.x context?
> The only thing I am worried about is why proxy basic auth is not
> behaving properly in preemptive auth i.e why the credentials are not
> sent there and why we are waiting for 407 from server before w edo that.
>

Take this question to the user list and post a _complete_ wire / context log of
the session that exhibits the problem.

Oleg


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:olegk@apac...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:17 AM
> To: HttpComponents Project
> Subject: Re: Preemptive Authentication
>
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:55:02AM -0700, Pankaj Arora wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to do preemptive authentication in Http ands as per as the auth
> > guide
> >
> http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/authentication.html#Preemptive_Authe
> > ntication I have set the option
> > client.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);
> > I observed that in case of the server the basic credentials were sent
> > out even though server didn't send a 401 reply but in case of proxy
> the
> > credentials were sent only when the client received 407 response.
> > Is there some other option I have to set for doing preemptive
> > authentication on the proxy too?
> > Please note that in both cases basic auth is happening.
> >
> > Also as I understand the preemptive authentication happens only in
> basic
> > authentication as in digest/NTLM we need reply from the server to
> create
> > the final response. Is my understanding correct?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pankaj Arora
> >
> >
>
> Pankaj
>
> HttpClient 3.1 is nearing end of life. Consider upfrading to 4.0.
>
> Http authentication with HttpClient 4.0 is described in details here:
>
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/authentication.
> html
>
> Preemptive authentication is described here:
>
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/tutorial/html/authentication.
> html#d4e942
>
> Oleg
>
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