I'm trying to use HTTP post to send a file to a web server that requires basic authentication.
My workplace has recently implemented a change to the proxy server and it now also requires basic authentication.
How can I enter my credentials for both of these servers in a single HttpPost request?
Turns out I needed to add a "Proxy-Authorization" header as well.
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://host:port/test/login");
String encoding = Base64Encoder.encode ("your_user:your_password");
httpPost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
String proxyEncoding = Base64Encoder.encode ("proxy_user:proxy_password");
httpPost.setHeader("Proxy-Authorization", "Basic " + proxyEncoding);
System.out.println("executing request " + httpPost.getRequestLine());
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
You need to add in your http header following line, as described in basic authorization:
The username and password are combined with a single colon.
The resulting string is encoded using the RFC2045-MIME variant of Base64, except not limited to 76 char/line.
Look at example with Apache HttpClient:
String encoding = Base64Encoder.encode ("your_login:your_password");
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://host:post/test/login");
httppost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
System.out.println("executing request " + httppost.getRequestLine());
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
