Thanks Oleg, Works like a charm. I noticed that if I leave the scheme preferences alone it tries to authenticate with NTLM then falls back to basic anyway. I don't remember HttpClient 3.x doing this, is this new in HttpClient?
cheers, Nick -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:50 AM To: HttpClient User Discussion Subject: Re: how to force basic scheme authentication using HttpClient 4.0.2 On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 19:53 -0500, Mills, Nick wrote: > I don't want to authenticate with the proxy using NTLM v2 (because it's not > supported). > So is there a way to force basic authentication in 4.0.2? > > I'm stuck with the 4.0.2 version because I'm using WebDriver 2.0a6. > > For older 3.x HttpClients we could do: > > HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); > List authPrefs = new ArrayList(2); > authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.DIGEST); > authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.BASIC); > // This will exclude the NTLM authentication scheme > client.getParams().setParameter(AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY, authPrefs); > > Am I able to do something similar with 4.0.2? > Yes, you can With HttpClient 4.0.x one can override the AbstractAuthenticationHandler#getAuthPreferences() method in order to return a different sequence of preferred auth schemes With HttpClient 4.1-alpha-x one can also use 'http.auth.proxy-scheme-perf' and 'http.auth.target-scheme-perf' parameters to set a particular sequence of preferred auth schemes for proxy and target authentication respectively. Please also note HttpClient 4.1 HEAD (to be released as 4.1-beta1 soon) fully supports NTLMv1 and NTLMv2 auth schemes out of the box Hope this help Oleg > Thanks, > Nick Mills --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
