Apache HttpClient (4.1 and newer): how to do basic authentication?

Question

How do I add basic authentication for the default client of the httpClient library? I have seen examples where they use client.getCredentialProvider(), however I th

Answer 1

I had this requirement of invoking a URL with Basic Authentication which also required proxy settings. This is what worked for me.

    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.InputStream;
    import java.io.StringReader;
    import java.util.HashMap;
    import java.util.Map;

    import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
    import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
    import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HostConfiguration;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
    import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
    import org.w3c.dom.*;

    import javax.xml.parsers.*;


    import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
    import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

    public class TestResponse {

    public final static String TESTURL="https://myURL";
    private static final String PROXY_HOST = "www2.proxyXYS";
    private static final int PROXY_PORT = 8080;


    public static void main (String args[]) 
    {
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(TESTURL);
    HostConfiguration config = client.getHostConfiguration();
    config.setProxy(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);

      String username = "User";
      String password = "Pa55w0rd";


    Credentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password);
    AuthScope authScope = new AuthScope(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);

    client.getState().setProxyCredentials(authScope, credentials);
    client.getState().setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, credentials);

    try {
        client.executeMethod(method);

        String response = method.getResponseBodyAsString();

        if (method.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
             response = method.getResponseBodyAsString();
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        method.releaseConnection();
    }
}





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