Hi,

On 31.10.2003, at 17:54, Helge Hess wrote:
is HttpWebRequest basic authentication supposed to work with Mono 0.28? I somehow don't get this working:
...
Does anyone has a small example which works with Mono and does authenticate against a webserver? Doesn't necessarily need to be PreAuthenticate, a 401/200 loop would be fine as well.

OK, I tracked down the issue a bit. Basic-Auth of course works with HTTP GET, I have working examples with that (thanks Chris). The issue is raised with HTTP POST and some weird HTTP/1.1 - 1.0 interaction.


Mono generates this:
---snip---
POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.1
...
Expect: 100-continue

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<a></a>
---snap---

and my server reponds that:
---snip---
HTTP/1.0 401 Authorization Required
www-authenticate: basic realm="SKYRiX"
content-length: 0
---snap---

which makes Mono "hang":
---snip---
END: SendRequestHeaders: System.Net.HttpWebRequest
nread == 0: may be the connection was closed?
System.Exception: Exception occured while sending request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The request timed out
in <0x001de> System.Net.HttpWebRequest:EndGetResponse (System.IAsyncResult)
in <0x000fb> System.Net.HttpWebRequest:GetResponse ()
in <0x001ca> .httpclient:Main ()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
in <0x002e6> .httpclient:Main ()
---snap---


I'm not yet sure what the intended behaviour is according to the HTTP/1.1 spec, but I guess as soon as I say that I'm HTTP/1.0, Mono should not continue doing 100-continue processing and at least should print a warning or something?
I _think_ (not sure) that I'm not doing anything illegal in my response, so I prefer blaming Mono ;-)


Anyway, in the meantime I'll try to add 100-continue processing (which obviously makes sense for protected resources ;-) to my HTTP implementation, maybe this makes the issue mood (at least for me, others will probably stumble over the issue as well ...)

regards,
  Helge
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