Question

I am using HTTPClient to make a web request. From the linux part, using the following command returns the status as OK. The same thing from the java is returning unauthorized status code 401.

Command from linux:

curl -X GET -ik -H 'Accept: application/json' --user test:test http://api.uat.testapi.com

To access this, I am using java code as below:

 HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("http://api.uat.testapi.com/");                 
            DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();         
            httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials( new AuthScope(targetHost.getHostName(), targetHost.getPort()), 
                    new UsernamePasswordCredentials("test","test"));
            HttpGet httppost = new HttpGet("http://api.uat.testapi.com/");
            httppost.addHeader("Accept","application/json");            
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);           
            System.out.println("status>>>>"+response.getStatusLine());

I am getting the response as: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized.

Any pointers to solve this will be helpful

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think you need to set HttpState to use authentication. Use

httpClient.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);

to do the same.