Digest authentication with Jersey Client

Question

Hi there,

I have written a REST web service with Jersey Server (that totally rocks !). I am now developing the client part of it, with Jersey Client as well.

On the server side, I have chosen a DIGEST authentication, because I personally think that BASIC authentication is an heresy that should be marked as "DEPRECATED" in our heads.

Unfortunately, I do not see any support of the Digest authentication on the client side. For BASIC authentication, one does something like :

client.addFilter(
    new HTTPBasicAuthFilter(
        user, 
        password));

But I see no "HTTPDigestAuthFilter" counterpart. Am I missing something ?

Thanks for your help,

Raphael

Answer 1

I have just implemented it. I have created a feature request in the Jersey issue tracker, and posted my implementation there, as attachment : https://jersey.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=542

It works fine for communicating with a DIGEST authentication of a Tomcat server. I have not tested for other web servers yet.