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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:30:58 -0500
Subject: Re: SSL and BasicAuth Example
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From: Michael Becke <becke@u.washington.edu>
To: "Commons HttpClient Project" <commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
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John,

Attached is an example that uses basic authentication.  Please let me 
know if you have any questions.

Mike


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import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;

/**
 * A simple example that uses HttpClient to perform a GET using Basic
 * Authentication.
 */
public class BasicAuthenticatonExample {

    /**
     * Constructor for BasicAuthenticatonExample.
     */
    public BasicAuthenticatonExample() {
        super();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

        // pass our credentials to HttpClient, they will only be used for
        // authenticating to servers with realm "realm"
        client.getState().setCredentials( 
            "realm", 
            new UsernamePasswordCredentials( "username", "password" )
        );
        
        // create a GET method that reads a file over HTTPS, we're assuming
        // that this file requires basic authentication using the realm above.
        GetMethod get = new GetMethod( "https://host/path/file.html" );

        // Tell the GET method to automatically handle authentication. The 
        // method will use any appropriate credentials to handle basic 
        // authentication requests.  Setting this value to false will cause 
        // any request for authentication to return with a status of 401.  
        // It will then be up to the client to handle the authentication.
        get.setDoAuthentication( true );
        
        // execute the GET
        int status = client.executeMethod( get );

        // print the status and response    
        System.out.println( status + "\n" + get.getResponseBodyAsString() );
        
        // release any connection resources used by the method
        get.releaseConnection();
        
    }
}

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On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Alden, John wrote:

> Basic Authorization
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