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Re: [Jersey] Jersey Client and Basic Authentication

From: Jeff Schmidt <jas_at_535consulting.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:47:17 -0700

Hi Craig:

I thought you might point out the statefulness of my REST API. :) This
was the most expedient way to provide such access with a very session
oriented application. We hope to move to a stateless REST API in the
future.

Cheers,

Jeff

On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Craig McClanahan wrote:

> Jeff Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
> That is pretty bold, given that REST encourages you *not* to build
> stateful applications (i.e. where state is persisted between
> requests on the server, typically in a session) :-).
>
> But both of these, and SSL certification for that matter, seems like
> something you would want your servlet container to take care of in a
> webapp environment, so we're only talking about Java SE apps, right?
>
> Craig
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jeff
>> --
>> Jeff Schmidt
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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Jeff Schmidt