Preemptive auth and mixed auth types and alpha5

[Sebastiaan van Erk]

Hi,

I have a question a preemptive authentication and auth types in alhpa5.





First question: is the above doable with httpclient 4.0-alpha5?



Third question: in alpha5 the following code no longer compiles:

        HttpClientParams.setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);

What is the correct way to use preemptive authentication now?

Regards,
Sebastiaan

First of all, I'm doing some non-repeatable requests, but I always do 1 repeatable short request first. I can use this first request to authenticate to the proxy (figuring out the out type etc), but the following requests should be preemptive if possible. I use all three possible auth types (basic, digest, and NTLM). Second question: when I register credentials with httpclient, I can only set them once. So how can set the correct credentials if I don't yet know the auth type? Or should I use the first request to determine the auth type? Currently there are UsernamePasswordCredentials (for BASIC and DIGEST) and NTCredentials (for NTLM). Or is it possible to *always* just use NTCredentials for the other auth types as well?

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