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Java example source code file (ClientPreemptiveBasicAuthentication.java)

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Java tags/keywords

authscheme, authscope, authstate, basichttpcontext, basicscheme, credentialsprovider, defaulthttpclient, httpexception, httpget, httphost, httprequestinterceptor, io, ioexception, no, preemptiveauth

The ClientPreemptiveBasicAuthentication.java example source code

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package org.apache.http.examples.client;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpException;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
import org.apache.http.HttpRequestInterceptor;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScheme;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthState;
import org.apache.http.auth.Credentials;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.protocol.ClientContext;
import org.apache.http.impl.auth.BasicScheme;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.ExecutionContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * An example of HttpClient can be customized to authenticate 
 * preemptively using BASIC scheme.
 * <b/>
 * Generally, preemptive authentication can be considered less
 * secure than a response to an authentication challenge
 * and therefore discouraged.
 * <b/>
 * This code is NOT officially supported! Use at your risk.
 */
public class ClientPreemptiveBasicAuthentication {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

        httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
                new AuthScope("localhost", 80), 
                new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password"));

        BasicHttpContext localcontext = new BasicHttpContext();

        // Generate BASIC scheme object and stick it to the local 
        // execution context
        BasicScheme basicAuth = new BasicScheme();
        localcontext.setAttribute("preemptive-auth", basicAuth);
        
        // Add as the first request interceptor
        httpclient.addRequestInterceptor(new PreemptiveAuth(), 0);
        
        HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("localhost", 80, "http"); 

        HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("/");

        System.out.println("executing request: " + httpget.getRequestLine());
        System.out.println("to target: " + targetHost);
        
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(targetHost, httpget, localcontext);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
            System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
            if (entity != null) {
                System.out.println("Response content length: " + entity.getContentLength());
                entity.consumeContent();
            }
        }
        
        // When HttpClient instance is no longer needed, 
        // shut down the connection manager to ensure
        // immediate deallocation of all system resources
        httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();        
    }
    
    static class PreemptiveAuth implements HttpRequestInterceptor {

        public void process(
                final HttpRequest request, 
                final HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {
            
            AuthState authState = (AuthState) context.getAttribute(
                    ClientContext.TARGET_AUTH_STATE);
            
            // If no auth scheme avaialble yet, try to initialize it preemptively
            if (authState.getAuthScheme() == null) {
                AuthScheme authScheme = (AuthScheme) context.getAttribute(
                        "preemptive-auth");
                CredentialsProvider credsProvider = (CredentialsProvider) context.getAttribute(
                        ClientContext.CREDS_PROVIDER);
                HttpHost targetHost = (HttpHost) context.getAttribute(
                        ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST);
                if (authScheme != null) {
                    Credentials creds = credsProvider.getCredentials(
                            new AuthScope(
                                    targetHost.getHostName(), 
                                    targetHost.getPort()));
                    if (creds == null) {
                        throw new HttpException("No credentials for preemptive authentication");
                    }
                    authState.setAuthScheme(authScheme);
                    authState.setCredentials(creds);
                }
            }
            
        }
        
    }
}

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