How does Basic Authentication work?

[dan]

URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();

connection.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization", "Basic
"+"c2VydmljZTAxAdswMQ==");

connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/html, image/*");
connection.setDoInput( true );
connection.setDoOutput( true );
connection.setUseCaches( false );

connection.connect();



So this is my code...
Proxy-Authorization does work! How can I logon to another site via
Basic Authentication?

 

[Chris Smith]

URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();

connection.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization", "Basic
"+"c2VydmljZTAxAdswMQ==");

connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/html, image/*");
connection.setDoInput( true );
connection.setDoOutput( true );
connection.setUseCaches( false );

connection.connect();



So this is my code...
Proxy-Authorization does work! How can I logon to another site via
Basic Authentication?

Umm, set an Authorization header, I guess. It looks exactly like your
Proxy-Authorization header, so you've already got the code to build it,
right?

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