Re: [cinjug-users] RESTful service HTTP digest authentication

["Edward Sumerfield" <esumerfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing to be careful of with HtmlUnit is that its goals are to test web pages so it does lots of fuzzy-parsing of the page so that we can assert the values on the page. HttpClient should do the job for you though I usually end up wrapping it in a simple Http.get(url) method because its API is not the simplest.

 

On 9/25/07, Adam Schaible <schaible_adam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's also a package called HtmlUnit (I THINK!!) that wraps HttpClient (which wraps the Sun API) - it's actually easier to use than HttpClient, and will work 99% of the time you could use HttpClient.
 

Adam Schaible

 

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----- Original Message ----
From: "Hudson, Loren (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE, US)" < loren.hudson@xxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 8:19:14 AM
Subject: RE: [cinjug-users] RESTful service HTTP digest authentication

I can personally speak to the ease of use of Apache's HttpClient.  I was trying to use Sun's API, and it would have worked fine, but I had to authenticate to both an internal proxy and the external website, keep cookies, the whole nine yards.  With HttpClient, not only did I get farther in 15 minutes than I did with Sun in 4 hours, but I used less code.

 

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From: wonton927 [mailto:wonton927@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 9:08 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cinjug-users] RESTful service HTTP digest authentication

 

Thanks for the info.  I think I can use HttpClient, but I will spend some time tomorrow on Restlet API to see which is better from implementing digest authentication's point.

Ling

Abdul Habra < ahabra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you cannot find a RESTful client, you should consider using Jakarta commons HttpClient.

I also remember reading last year about Java Restlet API: www.restlet .org

But I have not used them.

wonton927 <wonton927@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anybody implemented a client to talk to RESTful service with HTTP digest authentication or can somebody point me to the right place for this like examples etc.

 

Thanks!

 

Ling

 

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