As the person who submitted the http basic auth patch to the get task, let me add some information here.
At 01:13 PM 11/3/2001 -0800, Steve Loughran writes: >I'm getting the http task set (get, post, head, setproxy) working again, >which, now that I understand much more about the intricasies of how java.net >behaves across different java versions, should be better -although >implementation using http unit would be better. I am not re-using the >base-64 code recently added to <get> as I'm not convinced it works all the >time. When I am then it'll need pulling out into a standalone class instead >of a private inner class of Get.java. Also, I dont have authenticated post >working yet, but will work on that later. >
refactoring the base-64 code out, if it is needed else where is fine with me. I would be curious to get details on the cases where it doesn't work.
>1. I'm going to file this stuff in taskdefs.optional.http
>
>2. I'm going to add unit tests under taskdefs.optional.online and keep that
>out the main 'tests' target, so that only people that want to do online
>tests will hit the network, and a test run doesnt fail when the net aint
>there. I thought about using the <head> task to probe for the network, but
>it can still trigger dial up of PSTN/ISDN lines and so incur costs.
>
>3. I am going to run a subset of the tests against the existing <get> task,
>also in the online category, verifying that the new authentication works
>against a server using basic auth.
>
this was verified by me against two servers, but re-verification is always nice.
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