Lee Francis, Now it hit me.
When credentials are explicitly set to be used with a given host and/or realm only, there'll never be used for preemptive authentication for security reasons. The credentials will be used to respond to a direct authorization challenge originating from the specified host/realm. client.getState().setCredentials(realm, host, upc); You have got to provide default credentials in order for HttpClient to be able to send credentials preemptively client.getState().setCredentials(null, null, upc); This should do the trick Oleg -----Original Message----- From: Lee Francis Wilhelmsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 15:03 To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: RE: Posting XML over authenticated connection using SSL > Since you appear to be passing a custom HttpState object to the > HttpClient#executeMethod these lines of code have no effect of what so ever on the > method's execution > > client.getState().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true); > client.getState().setCredentials(realm, host, upc); > > Try this instead > > httpState.setAuthenticationPreemptive(true); > httpState.setCredentials(realm, host, upc); > status = client.executeMethod(hostConfiguration, method, httpState); > > HTH > > Oleg Sorry, it seems I 've made a mistake when showing you my example code in my prevous mail. I'm calling client.executeMethod(method); and not client.executeMethod(hostConfiguration, method, httpState); in my code. Don't understand why the Authorization header isn't being sent in the first request as expected when setting setAuthenticationPreemptive(true) Any ideas? Regards Lee Francis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. *************************************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]