Hi everyone.
I wish I could use HttpClient 4.1 through a NTLM proxy, in a Webstart
environment.
May be you can help me clarify a few things about that.
I read that HttpClient 4.1 has out-of-the-box support of NTLM (but I
am not sure what it really means).
The doc gives such a NTLM-related code:
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
NTCredentials creds = new NTCredentials("user", "pwd",
"myworkstation", "microsoft.com");
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, creds);
It is very painful to ask the user its name, its pass and
(especially!) its domain.
That's why the JVM already does that job (in Webstart mode) : it pops
up a JAuthenticator that asks
the proxy user/proxy pass, it figures out the domain by itself and it
preconfigures java.net.URL accordingly.
Then you can use java.net.URL and URLConnection transparently, without
any NTLM-specific code.
So my question is:
does HttpClient 4.1, in a Webstart envrionnement, benefit from the
java.net.URL preconfiguration
I mentionned ?
Or is the NTLM-related code necessary even in Webstart environments to
let HttpClient 4.1 go through NTLM proxy? [1]
[1]: in that case, how to figure out the NT domain? Asking the user
for that information is usually very painful (:
users do not know their NT domain)
Any help is welcome.
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