HttpClient commons-httpclient Digest Authentication.

Question

I am getting this error from a PostMethod using commons-httpclient

No credentials available for DIGEST 'realm'@localhost

and a 401 back from the server.

I followed the example from this post java client program to send digest authentication request using HttpClient API (2)

However, it still seems to fail.

I am trying to connect to a XML-RPC service, we use digest authentication. I tried using the Apache xmlrpc library but it seems to not support digest authentication.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi, I'm trying to do the exact same thing. I have my XML-RPC client working fine now:

    public static short connectToBugTrackingXmlRpcServer() {
    try {
        XmlRpcClientConfigImpl xmlRpcClientConfig = new XmlRpcClientConfigImpl();
        xmlRpcClientConfig.setServerURL(new URL(CStudioGlobals.bugTrackingConfProperties.getUrlXmlRpcServer()));
        xmlRpcClientConfig.setBasicUserName(CStudioGlobals.bugTrackingConfProperties.getUsername());
        xmlRpcClientConfig.setBasicPassword(CStudioGlobals.bugTrackingConfProperties.getPassword());
        xmlRpcClientConfig.setEncoding("UTF-8");

        XmlRpcClient xmlRpcClient = new XmlRpcClient();
        xmlRpcClient.setConfig(xmlRpcClientConfig);

        CTrackerDynamicProxy xmlRpcProxy = new CTrackerDynamicProxy(xmlRpcClient);

        Ticket ticket = (Ticket)xmlRpcProxy.newInstance(Ticket.class);
        ticket.query(); // query some tickets

        return CONNECTION_SUCCESS;
    } catch (Throwable t) {
        t.printStackTrace();
        displayError(CStudioGlobals.localization.getTerm("error.title.Sql_error"),
                     CStudioGlobals.localization.getTerm("error.content._Invalid_connection"),
                     CStudioGlobals.localization.getTerm("error.resolution.Check_your_connection_settings"));
        return CONNECTION_RETRY;
    }
}

but I'd like to use http digest authentication. Could you explain ho you did it ? Thanks,