On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 16:33 -0500, Mills, Nick wrote: > 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 >
Nick I think HC 3.x should behave exactly the same way if the NTLM were disabled. If the target server sends two challenges NTLM and BASIC back and NTLM is not supported or disabled, BASIC will be used as a fall back. Hope this helps Oleg > -----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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
