Just enabled Debug logging via commons-logging. A simple log4j
properties file should do the trick.

Bill-

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Patrick Lightbody <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oleg,
> Thanks for the quick reply. One question: Is that an API call, or simply 
> turning on low-level log statements for the BasicHttpContext class via 
> commons-logging?
>
> Patrick
>
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:29 -0700, Patrick Lightbody wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you turn of context logging you should be able to see whether or not
>> the cached auth scheme is being re-used.
>>
>> Oleg
>>
>>
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