Hi Matt,
maybe the reason is, that the status is set to 204, if there is no
entity (by Restlet). This must onky be done, if status is 200. Maybe
this check is missing. Try to check it with the debugger.
BTW: 204 is not an error, it means "ok, but no entity available".
best regards
Stephan
Matt Kennedy schrieb:
> I'm trying to implement a custom authenticator class and I'm a little stumped
> by the behavior so far. When I override the authenticate() method to always
> return false, I get back an HTTP 204 error. However, if I have it always
> return true, then the request goes through correctly, so I think I have
> everything wired up the right way. Based on my reading of the available
> documentation, if authentication is set as required in the Authenticator
> subclass (which is the default setting), then a 401 response should be sent.
> Is this a bug? Or am I missing a required step in my subclass implementation?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> The following illustrates the problem (in Groovy):
>
> import org.restlet.*;
> import org.restlet.data.*;
> import org.restlet.security.Authenticator;
> import org.restlet.representation.*;
>
> class TestAuthenticator extends Authenticator
> {
> @Override
> public TestAuthenticator(Context ctx){ super(ctx); }
>
> @Override
> protected boolean authenticate(Request request, Response response)
> {
> return false;
> //return true;
> }
> }
>
> class TestRestlet extends Restlet
> {
> @Override
> public void handle(Request request, Response response)
> {
> response.setEntity(new StringRepresentation("hello, world\n",
> MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN));
> }
> }
>
> def component = new Component();
> Server http = component.servers.add(Protocol.HTTP, 8181);
> component.clients.add(Protocol.FILE);
> Context workingCtx = http.context;
> def guard = new TestAuthenticator(workingCtx);
> def restlet = new TestRestlet();
> guard.setNext(restlet);
> component.defaultHost.attach(guard);
> component.start();
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