On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 16:11 -0600, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:08 PM Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 14:41 -0600, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > Hi All: > > > > > > I need to implement server-side HTTP basic and digest auth using > > > HttpCore > > > on top of the reverse proxy I've already built. > > > > > > Are there any FOSS examples out there that you know of? > > > > > > Any tips or gotchas? > > > > > > Gary > > > > Hi Gary > > > > Any chance you might be willing to upgrade to HttpCore 5 for that? > > HttpCore 5.0 has proper support for server-side request > > interceptors > > (similar to Servlet filters) [1] and comes with an abstract > > authentication filter that makes implementation of BASIC, DIGEST > > and > > other authentication schemes much easier [2] [3]. With HttpCore 4.4 > > all > > this would need to be built in a much, much clumsier way. > > > > Hi Oleg, > > Either way, I've got my work cut of me ;-p Implement something clumsy > and > therefore hard to maintain or update from 4 to 5. This might be the > incentive I need to update to 5. > > The biggest issue I see is that this might mean shipping with a beta > or > snapshot version of HttpCore. How stable do you see the API for the > whole > of HttpCore? >
Gary, We can slap GA on it any time we please, though that would basically mean nothing. We rushed 4.0 release and it took several years to undo the damage it had caused. Being in BETA has an advantage of being able to tweak APIs slightly. > Do we have a migration guide? I do not see anything obvious on the > site or > wiki. > I am working on it but I keep on getting distracted with other things. I'll share the link to my repo at GitHub as soon as there is something to look at. Cheers Oleg > Thank you, > Gary > > > > Oleg > > > > [1] > > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/blob/master/httpcore5 > > /src/examples/org/apache/hc/core5/http/examples/ClassicServerFilter > > Example.java > > [2] > > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/blob/master/httpcore5 > > /src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/http/io/support/AbstractHttpServ > > erAuthFilter.java > > [3] > > https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/blob/master/httpcore5 > > -testing/src/test/java/org/apache/hc/core5/testing/classic/ClassicA > > uthenticationTest.java > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
