New HttpClient API - does it handle preemptive auth?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Thanks Daniel.

-Jaikiran


On 25/06/18 10:49 PM, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi Jaikiran,
>
> Yes - it does support preemptive auth, but only for basic
> authentication since only basic is supported out of the
> box.
>
> best regards,
>
> -- daniel
>
> On 25/06/2018 12:46, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> I'm testing/integrating the latest OpenJDK upstream HttpClient 
>> implementation with one of the libraries I have. Thanks for fixing 
>> some of the issues I (and others) had raised before!
>>
>> Before the introduction of this new API, the HttpURLConnection (which 
>> acted as a basic minimal client for HTTP) had an internal 
>> implementation detail where it handled preemptive authentication for 
>> resources which required auth. Does this new HttpClient 
>> implementation support preemptive auth? I haven't seen it exposed as 
>> an API (haven't checked the latest merged javadocs). But is it 
>> something that's even handled internally currently? Any plans to 
>> expose it as an API?
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
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