Index: authentication.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-commons/httpclient/xdocs/authentication.xml,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 authentication.xml --- authentication.xml 10 Mar 2003 04:49:22 -0000 1.3 +++ authentication.xml 23 May 2003 22:51:18 -0000 @@ -39,9 +39,14 @@ the server gives an unauthorized response in certain situations, thus reducing the overhead of making the connection. To enable this use the following:
+To enable preemptive authentication by default for all newly created + HttpState's, a system property can be set, as shown below.
+The preemptive authentication conforms to rfc2617:
+The preemptive authentication in HttpClient conforms to rfc2617:
A client SHOULD assume that all paths at or deeper than the depth of the last symbolic element in the path field of the Request-URI also @@ -137,11 +142,11 @@ -- There is an example - of basic authentication available in the - example directory in CVS. -
++ There is an example + of basic authentication available in the + example directory in CVS. +