Android OkHttp with Basic Authentication

Question

I\'m using the OkHttp library for a new project and am impressed with its ease of use. I now have a need to use Basic Authentication. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of w

Answer 1

The aforementioned solution has one drawback: httpClient adds authorization headers only after receiving 401 response. Here's how my communication with api-server looked like:

If you need to use basic-auth for every request, better add your auth-headers to each request or use a wrapper method like this:

private Request addBasicAuthHeaders(Request request) {
    final String login = "your_login";
    final String password = "p@s$w0rd";
    String credential = Credentials.basic(login, password);
    return request.newBuilder().header("Authorization", credential).build();
}