Github user sebastiencaille commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/httpclient/pull/52
When the java application is run in an applet environment (and webstart,
possibly), The Authenticator delegates the call to a
com.sun.deploy.security.DeployAuthenticator . The DeployAuthenticator only
works when the url parameter of requestPasswordAuthentication is the url I want
to connect to (eg http://www.whatever.com - the jdk provides the full url, it
works with the authority part), it does NOT work if the url parameter is the
proxy url (http://myproxy:3128) - I guess the authentication is delegated to
the browser, which needs this information for security reasons (maybe to
prevent cross domain calls). Since the AuthScope only contains information
about the proxy, the information needed to call requestPasswordAuthentication
the "right" way is currently not available...
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