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From: "Patricia Goldweic" <pgoldweic@northwestern.edu>
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Subject: RE: Newbie question about digest authentication
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:17:47 -0500
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Thanks,
-Patricia

pgoldweic@northwestern.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:olegk@apache.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:51 AM
> To: HttpClient User Discussion
> Subject: Re: Newbie question about digest authentication
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 05:39:45PM -0500, Patricia Goldweic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just started using httpClient (version 3.1 at the moment), and 
> > I'm not clear as to the 'bigger' picture of using digest 
> > authentication with a particular get/post method. That is, I have a 
> > simple test case working with basic authentication and the tomcat 
> > MemoryRealm, but would like to understand whether, if I 
> were to switch 
> > to 'digest' authentication in httpclient,
> > - I would also need to switch tomcat's realm configuration 
> to use the 
> > 'digest' attribute or not?
> > - I would need to encrypt the paswords in the tomcat-users 
> file? (for 
> > testing purposes, I am just using the Memory realm with the default 
> > user
> > file)
> > - I would need to configure my web.xml file to use DIGEST 
> > authentication or BASIC authentication?.
> > I think ideally it would be great if I could see some 
> sample code that 
> > uses digest authentication, and includes the corresponding tomcat 
> > realm definition/web.xml file.
> > Thanks in advance for any pointers,
> > -Patricia
> >  
> > pgoldweic@northwestern.edu
> > 
> 
> Hi Patricia
> 
> HttpClient will automatically pick up Digest over Basic if 
> both are supported by the remote host. There is virtually no 
> difference between Digest and Basic from the HttpClient user 
> perspective. 
> 
> As far as Tomcat configuration concerned you will have a 
> better luck asking those questions on the Tomcat user list.
> 
> Oleg
> 
>  
> 
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