Authentication won't work in some situations
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Key: IVY-1168
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1168
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Ant
Affects Versions: 2.1.0
Reporter: Sven Walter
Hi,
Regarding a requirement to publish an artifact (Hudson -> ivy (v.2.1.0)) only
after a successful authentication against Archiva and LDAP I tried to realize
it with the tag "credential" which is part of the ivysettings.xml.
Unfortunately, it was quite hard to get this finally done. Different forum
discussions did not provide enough help to solve my problems. After
investigation and debugging of the ivy code I found the following
issues/problems:
1. IvyAuthenticator was sometimes not the default:
We have a very complex build process which includes some sub-ant call. This
leads to the problem that the default Authenticator will be changed to the java
default or at least not the IvyAuthenticator. To ensure that the right one will
be used I changed the BasicURLHandler and set the default before establishing
the connection and publishing or retrieving an artifact.
...
public void upload(...) { ...
Authenticator.setDefault(IvyAuthenticator.INSTANCE); ... }
...
2. Unexpected realm information
By using the HttpClient the realm won't be considered. We have different
repositories in our Archiva (and only one host). The implementation adds the
credential twice (key=re...@host and key=host). The last one will win because
the HttpClient does not get the realm information. I think a better approach in
this situation is to authenticate without the realm (HttpClientHandler.java).
The current implementation works only if you have one repository or the last
defined credential is always the right one.
...
httpClient.getState().setProxyCredentials(new AuthScope(proxyHost, proxyPort,
proxyRealm), ...
...
3. The mystery of the realm
The documentation is not very clear about the realm. It is hard to find out
what the right realm is. To get a better overview I extend the class
CredentialsStore with additional logging information to get more light into the
dark.
...
public Credentials getCredentials(...) { Message.debug("try to get credentials
for: " + realm + "@" + host); ... }
...
I build a new ivy.jar including all of my changes and now, it works. To avoid
further costs in the future (by upgrading ivy) and supporting ivy I want to
incorporate my changes into one of the next ivy releases. Is this possible or
in general what do you think about the changes?
Best regards,
Sven Walter
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