On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:27:39 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> When to use the Authenticator (or not) is typically implementation dependent.
> We should have documented how our implementation used the authenticator when
> the API was added in JDK 11. I am not sure we should make this text
> normative, but if you believe we should I will not object. Do you think we
> should?
Would it be better as an implNote then? I guess it's possible that other
implementations of the API might not behave this way.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21408#discussion_r1799697312
