Re: Wookie proxy: POST and Basic Auth

[Scott Wilson]

On 28 Jan 2010, at 15:10, Henning Eriksson wrote:

Hi,

We solved the problem at the moment by making changes to the Wookie proxy code. It now reads the Authorization from the Request header and send it through the Proxy. Also finished the POST support. Busy at the moment, and out of office next week, but after 8th of february we can send in the fix as a patch.

That's fantastic, Henning, great work!

Note that you will need to send in an ICLA before we can apply the patch - see http://apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE

You can then submit the patch file as an attachment when you create an issue in the tracker at: If you need any help with any of these steps, just ask on the list. (Or I'll see you in Innsbruck next week perhaps?)

Best regards,

Henning Eriksson


Scott Wilson skrev 2010-01-27 14.07:

Hi Henning,

On 27 Jan 2010, at 09:56, Henning Eriksson wrote:

Hi,

We are working with Wookie in a project and need to send HTTP POST. Will you add support for HTTP POST through the proxy? Today it only send "XMLDATA-TODO" according to ProxyServlet.java.

The proxy uses commons HttpClient - it should be fairly straightforward to finish the POST support; would you like to try doing this yourself and send in the fix as a patch?

Another question is regarding doing Basic Auth through the Wookie proxy. Will it be supported in the future? What would be the easiest way to manage this?

proxy?url=http://myurl.com&username=usr&password=pwd





S

At the moment it will translate a request containing a username and password as parameters into a HTTP Basic Auth request, e.g. Though looking over the code I think there are plenty of areas for improvement here. (We had hoped we could reuse Shindig's proxy code, but sadly it was wound too tightly into lots of other parts of Shindig and could not be extracted into a standalone jar.)

Best regards,
Henning Eriksson

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