Hi Jorge,
Wow! I sort of had in mind other client-based implementations when
designing the API but i did not expect things to go that smoothly :-)
Can't wait for next week!
Paul.
On Nov 10, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Jorge L Williams wrote:
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> Hey guys,
>
> I've added support for Basic, Digest, and NTLM authentication and
> preemptive authentication by adding an Apache HTTPClient backend to
> Jersey client. Cookie handling is also supported -- though off by
> default. This also fixes other errors associated with
> URLConnections like not being able to retrieve 401 error codes.
> Also, HTTPClient seems perform better than URLConnection -- though I
> haven't done any real benchmarking -- it does feel snappier! As as
> side note, I've also modified the WADL2Java implementation so that
> it uses Jersey client as a backend -- as a way of providing support
> for these features from a generated WADL client.
>
> I took the approach of simply creating a root ClientHandler and
> ClientConfig class (under impl). I didn't touch any of the Jersey
> Client API code. Basically the usage looks something like this:
>
>
>
> DefaultHttpClientConfig clientConfig = new DefaultHttpClientConfig();
>
> //
> // Set the credentials (realm, host, port, username, password)
> //
> clientConfig.setCredentials (null, "host.inl.gov", 443, username,
> password);
> clientConfig.getProperties().put
> (HttpClientConfig.PROPERTY_PREEMPTIVE_AUTHENTICATION, Boolean.TRUE);
>
> Client c = new Client (new HttpClientHandler(), config);
>
>
>
> I've been testing my implementation for a week or so and things
> seems stable. Unfortunately, I'm on my way out the door now and
> I'll be away from work for the rest of the week. I won't be able
> to get a patch to you guys till sometime next week at the earliest.
> Figured I'd mentioned it now since there seems to be interests in
> some of these features.
>
> -jOrGe W.
>
>
>
> Jeff Schmidt <jas_at_535consulting.com>
> 11/10/2008 09:48 AM
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> This would be great! :)
>
> Might I be so bold as to hope for preemptive authentication and
> cookie handling in order to maintain an HTTP session?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
> --
> Jeff Schmidt
>
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
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>
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
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> Hi Paul,
>
> Is it worth revisiting Basic and Digest authentication support for the
> client now that 1.0 is released?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> I'd be more than happy to try and
> help out.
>
>
> Great. How do you want to proceed? Do you want to send a patch?
>
> Paul.
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