RFR: 8263899: HttpClient throws NPE in AuthenticationFilter when parsing www-authenticate head [v3]

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:06:08 GMT, Michael McMahon <michaelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Could I get the following simple fix reviewed please? 
>> 
>> The bug is jdk.internal.net.http.AuthenticationFilter throws an NPE wrapped in an IOException if it receives a HTTP response containing a WWW-Authenticate header with no value.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael.
>
> Michael McMahon has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   fix whitespace error

test/jdk/java/net/httpclient/EmptyAuthenticate.java line 63:

> 61:         //run client:
> 62:         try {
> 63:             HttpClient httpClient = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

Hmmm... Does this happen even when there's no authenticator?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3113