Use character arrays for passwords in Credentials objects, not Strings
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Key: HTTPCLIENT-1106
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1106
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: HttpAuth
Affects Versions: 4.1.1
Reporter: John Karp
Priority: Minor
Its fairly conventional to use char[] to represent passwords in Java, because
using Strings can present security issues:
http://securesoftware.blogspot.com/2009/01/java-security-why-not-to-use-string.html
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/jce/JCERefGuide.html#PBEEx
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