Re: The simplest way to download a file from http resource that need authentication

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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:09:53 -0500
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Andrea Francia wrote:

Lew wrote:

Andrea Francia wrote:

Authenticator.setDefault() method which is a static method and therefore
not usable in a threaded enviroment.


Static methods can be used in a multi-threaded program.


There is a race conditions. Here the example:

We have two thread: t1 and t2 that executes the following code

    Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
      protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
         return new PasswordAuthentication(username,
password.toCharArray());
      }});
    URLConnection con = url.openConnection();


Authenticator.setDefault is designed for proxy servers that
requires authentication and in that context all requests
need the same authenticator.

I think you will need to set HTTP headers manually.

Something like:

con.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", "Basic " +
basicauth("user","pass"));

where:

     public static String basicauth(String un, String pw) throws
MessagingException, IOException {
         ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         OutputStream b64os = MimeUtility.encode(baos, "base64");
         b64os.write((un + ":" + pw).getBytes());
         b64os.close();
         return new String(baos.toByteArray());
      }

Arne

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