[HTTPCLIENT-916] RFE: Make Credentials Serializable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.1 Alpha2
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Gredler
• Created: 23/Feb/10 00:17
• Updated: 20/Sep/16 19:31
• Resolved: 26/Feb/10 12:19

Description

I've been working on upgrading the HtmlUnit library to use HttpClient 4, and I've realized that we could eliminate some hackish internal code if Credentials instances were Serializable. I don't really see a downside, and this would be a huge convenience for us.

The change would involve making the org.apache.http.auth.Credentials interface extend Serializable, and having org.apache.http.auth.BasicUserPrincipal and org.apache.http.auth.NTUserPrincipal implement Serializable (plus serialVersionUIDs where appropriate, I guess).