On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:09:47 GMT, Michael McMahon <micha...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I closed https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/21249 and am continuing the 
>> review on this PR.
>> 
>> This fix relaxes the constraints on user set authentication headers. 
>> Currently, any user set authentication headers are filtered out, if the 
>> HttpClient has an Authenticator set. The reason being that the authenticator 
>> is expected to manage authentication. With this fix, it will be possible to 
>> use pre-emptive authentication through user set headers, even if an 
>> authenticator is set. The expected use case is where the authenticator would 
>> manage either proxy or server authentication and the user set headers would 
>> manage server authentication if the authenticator is managing proxy (or vice 
>> versa).
>> 
>> A CSR will be filed to document this change.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>
> Michael McMahon has updated the pull request incrementally with three 
> additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Update src/java.net.http/share/classes/jdk/internal/net/http/Stream.java
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Daniel Jelinski <djelins...@gmail.com>
>  - Update 
> src/java.net.http/share/classes/jdk/internal/net/http/AuthenticationFilter.java
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Daniel Jelinski <djelins...@gmail.com>
>  - Update 
> src/java.net.http/share/classes/jdk/internal/net/http/AuthenticationFilter.java
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Daniel Jelinski <djelins...@gmail.com>

src/java.net.http/share/classes/java/net/http/HttpClient.java line 418:

> 416:          * the {@link Authenticator} will not be invoked for the 
> corresponding
> 417:          * authentication.
> 418:          *

Reading this makes me wonder if this should be normative, as in part of the 
spec rather than a note for developers using the API. Has that been discussed?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21408#discussion_r1798106962

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