Apache HttpClient Digest authentication

Question

Basically what I need to do is to perform digest authentication. First thing I tried is the official example available here. But when I try to execute it(with some small ch

Answer 1

This code snippet worked for me. You have to provide the realm which you can get by looking at the 401 response header you get from the host.

val credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY,
  new UsernamePasswordCredentials(user, password));
val authCache = new BasicAuthCache();
val digestScheme = new DigestScheme();

digestScheme.overrideParamter("realm", "**Name of the Realm**");
// Nonce value
digestScheme.overrideParamter("nonce", "whatever");

authCache.put(targetHost, digestScheme);

context.setCredentialsProvider(credsProvider);
context.setAuthCache(authCache);

val httpget = new HttpGet(url);

val response = httpClient.execute(targetHost, httpget, context);