Digest authentication in Android using HttpURLConnection

Question

as the question allready says, I am trying to do digest authentication in android.
Until now i have used the DefaultHttpClient and it\'s authentication meth

Answer 1

Did you try to set the header manually like:

String basic = "Basic " + new String(Base64.encode("username:password".getBytes(),Base64.NO_WRAP ));
connection.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", basic);

Also be aware of some issues in Jellybeans and a bug when you try to perform a post request: HTTP Basic Authentication issue on Android Jelly Bean 4.1 using HttpURLConnection

EDIT: For Digest authentication

Have a look here https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9579

Especially this might work:

try {   
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient(
                new MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager());

        client.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);
        Credentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password");
        client.getState().setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, credentials);
        List authPrefs = new ArrayList(2);
        authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.DIGEST);
        authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.BASIC);
        client.getParams().setParameter(AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY,
                authPrefs);
        GetMethod getMethod = new GetMethod("your_url");
        getMethod.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml");
        client.executeMethod(getMethod);
        int status = getMethod.getStatusCode();
        getMethod.setDoAuthentication(true);
        System.out.println("status: " + status);
        if (status == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
            String responseBody = getMethod.getResponseBodyAsString();
            String resp = responseBody.replaceAll("\n", " ");
            System.out.println("RESPONSE \n" + resp);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }