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ASF GitHub Bot commented on HTTPCLIENT-1748: -------------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/pull/55 > When run in java applet, SystemDefaultCredentialsProvider fails to get > authentication from Authenticator > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HTTPCLIENT-1748 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1748 > Project: HttpComponents HttpClient > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: HttpClient (classic) > Affects Versions: 4.5 > Environment: Windows, application running in a java applet started by > firefox, connection to a remote server via a squid proxy with basic > authentication > Reporter: Sébastien Caille > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 5.0 Alpha2 > > > Hello, > The java applets are deprecated, but the issue may impact other use cases. > During a POST call made from a java applet via a proxy server with basic > authentication, SystemDefaultCredentialsProvider.getSystemCreds(...) calls > Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication, which wrongly returns "null" > authentication. > The java applet console shows that a NullPointerException was ignored. > I managed to fix the issue by providing the following values to > Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication (getSystemCreds is currently > providing null for those ones ): > prompt = authscope.getRealm() > url = context.getAttribute(HttpClientContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST) > Both values are needed ( prompt == null && url != null -> dialog box asking > for credentials, prompt != null && url == null -> crashes firefox) > Note that when downloading the applet jar files, the java is providing values > for all the parameters of Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication > (according to a breakpoint in requestPasswordAuthentication). > Thanks -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org