RE: any suggestions as to what could be wrong here?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:olegk@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:47 AM
> To: HttpClient User Discussion
> Subject: Re: any suggestions as to what could be wrong here?
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:12:11PM -0500, Patricia Goldweic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've (very) recently started using httpclient (3.1) in my Java app.
> > I've successfully been able to make connections from a
> program running
> > on server A to another program (servlet) running on server
> B, where B
> > uses Tomcat as the servlet container, and DIGEST authentication is
> > used to authenticate between A and B.
> > Now, here is the problem: within server B, I need to make
> another http
> > request to a different servlet running also on B, in the same web
> > application as A. I used exactly the same code to create the
> > Httpclient instance, set credentials, and execute a GetMethod that
> > does what I need on that second servlet on B, that what
> I've used for
> > connections between A and B.
> > However, when this new httpclient connection is created and
> run within
> > B, I get  a 'No credentials available for DIGEST: '<REALM
> NAME>&<DOMAIN NAME>'.
> > One thing to note (perhaps): on the web application on B, the http
> > client instances are created within a background thread
> that is part
> > of the web application.
> >  
> > Does anybody have any suggestions as to what could be causing this
> > credentials issue? (BTW, I'm printing out my own debugging
> statements
> > when I set the credentials in the httpclient instance, right before
> > the call to executeMethod).
> > My code is as follows:
> >  
> > private HttpClient getHttpClient() {
> >     HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
> >     List<String> authPrefs = new ArrayList<String>(1);
> >     authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.DIGEST);
> >     client.getParams().setParameter(AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY,
> > authPrefs);
> >     client.getState().setCredentials(new AuthScope("mydomain", -1,
>
> Patricia,
>
> The first parameter of AuthScope is expected to be a
> hostname, not a domain name.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Oleg
>
>
> > "myrealm"), new UsernamePasswordCredentials("myaccount",
> "mypassword")));
> >     return client;
> > }
> >  
> > And I'm using it as follows :
> >  
> > HttpClient client = getHttpClient();
> > GetMethod get = new GetMethod("someurlWithinB");
> > get.setDoAuthentication(true); int responseCode = 0; String
> > responseString = null; try {
> >     responseCode = client.executeMethod(get);
> >     ... (here I check the response code and find '401' )
> >     } catch (Exception)
> >     ...
> > }
> >  
> >  
> > -Patricia
>
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