I read the docs + examples for preemptive basic auth, but it still doesn't look to be working. I started debugging the code and I'm actually not sure how it could work. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding how the internals of HttpClient works, but here's what I observed:
* RequestTargetAuthentication is responsible for adding the auth headers * RequestTargetAuthentication looks for an AuthState object that has non-null scheme & creds objects that are used for the header * DefaultRequestDirector creates an empty AuthState object on each new request (targetAuthState field) * DefaultRequestDirector only updates the targetAuthState fields after it makes an initial request that returns a 401 So what I'm finding in my debugging is that even though I've set up my CredentialsProvider with the correct authScope + UsernamePasswordCredentials and that I've set my HttpContext (global or local, doesn't matter) with the proper AuthCache + BasicScheme, I still end up with two queries: 401 and then finally a 200. In other words, it doesn't seem to be preemptive. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding how DefaultRequestDirector does it's loop inside execute()? Patrick
