- From: Anselm Baird_Smith <Anselm.Baird_Smith@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:14:11 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jack Van Keuls <vankeuj@nationwide.com>
- Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Jack Van Keuls writes: > I'm interested in building an Applet that acts as an HTTP client which > has the ability to perform Basic Authentication. I have so-far found > the > JDK 1.1 classes (URL and URLConnection) inadequate to accomplish this. > While researching the problem, I ran across the Jigsaw packages, which > appear to provide that ability. However, it's not clear to me from the > API documentation what needs to take place. > > Is this possible using the w3c.www.http and w3c.www.protocol.http > packages, and if so, could anyone provide a simple example? You may want to check w3c.www.protocol.http.auth which does this transparently for you (it will even pop the dialog if allwoed) Anselm.
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