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An Android activity that will demonstrate basic authentication mechanism
package com.webile.basicauth;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
basicAuthDemo();
}
private static final String HOST_NAME = <Your host name>;
private static final String URL = <Your url here>;
private static final String USER_NAME = <User name>;
private static final String PASSWORD = <Password>;
private void basicAuthDemo() {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
try {
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
new AuthScope(HOST_NAME, 443),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(USER_NAME, PASSWORD));
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(URL);
System.out.println("executing request" + httpget.getRequestLine());
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
if (entity != null) {
System.out.println("Response content length: " + entity.getContentLength());
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
} catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}finally {
// When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,
// shut down the connection manager to ensure
// immediate deallocation of all system resources
httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
}
}
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