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Richard Sand commented on HTTPCLIENT-1451:
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Hi Oleg,
I really do not understand your reticence to take this use case seriously. F5,
Cisco, Juniper, Alteon - all of these enterprise load management appliances use
cookies for stateful load distribution. All you are doing is making it more
difficult to use HttpClient in conjunction with any vendor that uses cookies
during authentication, and while you may not like these vendors and their
interpretation of the RFC's, there are MANY. From a use case standpoint, this
request is both reasonable and applicable for interoperability.
Best regards,
Richard
> 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
> Fix For: 4.4 Final
>
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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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