From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:51:09 +0200
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Martin Probst wrote:
> It works for me like this:
>
> resource.header(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, "Basic "
> + new String(Base64.encode("user:password"),
> Charset.forName("ASCII"))).get(...);
>
> Note that the header call returns a new object that you have to use,
> it doesn't seem to modify the existing one.
>
> There is also HTTPBasicAuthFilter but that had a bug that was only
> recently fixed on trunk.
>
Right.
Jersey also has support for the Apache HTTP client as the underlying
implementation used by the client API.