I have an application that requires authentication. I user a timer to schedule a task that will access the same application through httpClient. I am surprised to see the following statement did pass the authentication:
client.getState().setCredentials (null,new UsernamePasswordCredentials()); 1. Can anybody explain why? 2. I did a little experiement - if I don't call authenticate(), then the client.executeMethod(new PostMethod(http://myapp.com/myapp)) will fail becaue no credentials available for realm x at host xxx. However, if I call authenticate(), even to authenticate empty credential with null realm, I get pass for the next client.executeMethod(...). Why can I get authenticated on realm x while I only did authentication for null?? Thanks Jing
