[HTTPCLIENT-162] Realm from authentication challenge unavailable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0 Alpha 2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0 Beta 1
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Environment: Operating System: other; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 17158
• Assignee: Oleg Kalnichevski
• Reporter: Adrian Sutton
• Created: 18/Feb/03 20:00
• Updated: 22/Apr/07 07:10
• Resolved: 22/Apr/07 07:10

Description

There is currently no way to extract the authentication realm from HttpClient
except to extract the authentication challenge header and parse it manually.

Either the realm needs to be available to the client or a method in
Authenticator should extract the realm from a given authentication header.

The same problems occurs with determining which type of authentication is
being used and what other options there are (basic, digest, NTLM, others).