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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:08:04+00:00

I’m working on a web service and I need a code for making an

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I’m working on a web service and I need a code for making an HTTP request in java using basic authentication. I found lots of code at the internet but no one worked as expected.
Does anyone knows some library and/or link to do this?

Here is a python equivalent to what I want…

import urllib2
import base64

req = urllib2.Request('http://testeserjaum.appspot.com/rest/metadata')
req.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)')
base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' %('user', 'pass'))
print base64string
req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" %base64string)
lol = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print lol.read()
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  1. Editorial Team

    Yea, you just use the HttpURLConnection class. The Android team has actually put a lot of development time into making this class extremely performant and usefully. I highly recommend it!

    P.S. If you’re really curious, checkout this blog post from the android dev team.

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