On 23 January 2013 17:21, Daz DeBoer <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 23 January 2013 16:24, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> On 24/01/2013, at 3:47 AM, Daz DeBoer wrote:
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>> G'day
>>
>> Another issue has been discovered with 1.4-rc-2:
>> http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2650.
>>
>> It's unfortunate that the symptoms of this issue are very similar to
>> http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2641 which was fixed in 1.4-rc-2.
>> This similarity meant that we originally thought it was the same issue.
>>
>> It's possible that the fix is as simple as setting http.keepAlive =
>> "true" explicitly in our code, to workaround the bug in HttpClient 4.2.2.
>> I'm waiting to hear back on this front.
>>
>> If that doesn't fix the issue, we might want to consider introducing a
>> system property that would permit a user to specify which authentication
>> scheme should be used. That would also allow users to avoid the needless
>> attempts at NTLM authentication with every request, as well as removing the
>> warning that is often emitted about NEGOTIATE credentials not being
>> available.
>> There is actually a standard java system property for this, so we could
>> simply honour that preference: (
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/http-auth.html)
>>
>> http.auth.preference="scheme"
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>> Finally, we could consider upgrading to HttpClient 4.2.3, which may have
>> resolved this issue. I think we should do this for 1.5, as the new version
>> has vastly improved NTML authentication that might allow us to replace the
>> JCIFS implementation we currently use. We could use a custom value like
>> http.auth.preference="jcifs" to permit users to continue using the old
>> implementation (until we are confident the new implementation works).
>>
>>
>> The question is whether we need to do anything for the 1.4 release.
>>
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> My feeling is that this is a serious issue that will impact pretty much
> everyone using NTLM authentication.
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>> My understanding is that, right now, if I use a proxy that requires (or
>> just prefers) NTLM authentication and I haven't explicitly set
>> http.keepAlive = true, then I'm going to hit the problem.
>>
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> I suspect that this is the problem, and I hope that the fix is as simple
> as setting http.keepAlive = "true". I'm awaiting feedback from the reporter.
>

So I heard back, and with systemProp.http.keepAlive = "true", the problem
is rectified.

My plan is to add this fix and try to put out an rc-3 out today. Is there
anything else that needs to go in?

-- 
Darrell (Daz) DeBoer
Principal Engineer, Gradleware
http://www.gradleware.com

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