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Richard Sand commented on HTTPCLIENT-1451:
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Hi Oleg- the web service is a commercial product, CA SiteMinder. It issues
the cookie with the 401 just as a (very) rudimentary mechanism to prevent
unsolicited authentication requests. The cookie doesn't actually convey any
data, it's just a state mechanism. I still believe the client should be able
to handle it but I can see it both ways. Anyway thanks for replying, feel
free to mark the case as (distant) future or wont-fix.
Best regards,
Richard Sand | CEO
IDF Connect, Inc.
2207 Concord Ave, #359
Wilmington | Delaware 19803 | USA
Office: +1 888 765 1611 | Fax: +1 866 765 7284
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> HttpClient does not store response cookies on a 401
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-1451
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1451
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: HttpAuth
> Affects Versions: 4.3.2
> Reporter: Richard Sand
> Priority: Minor
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> Using HttpClient 4.3.2 to call a Web Service which is secured with BASIC
> authentication. The server responds to the initial request with a 401
> response but also includes a cookie.
> The HttpClient does not place response cookies into the cookie store until
> after it has completed the subsequent request with the Authorize header, but
> the server rejects the authentication if the cookie is missing.
> To work around this I had to disable the authentication capability in the
> HttpClientContext and manually check for the 401 response code, and then send
> a followup request with a manually set Authorize header.
> So in the use case where the HttpClient is automatically sending a followup
> request with credentials in response to a 401, the client should place the
> cookies from the original response into the cookie store immediately, rather
> than waiting for after the response to the credentials (the 2nd response).
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