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/*
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 * $Date: 2006-11-29 06:56:49 +0100 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006) $
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthPolicy;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;

/**
 * <p>A simple example that uses alternate authentication scheme selection
 * if several authentication challenges are returned.
 * </p>
 * 
 * <p>Per default HttpClient picks the authentication challenge in the following
 *  order of preference: NTLM, Digest, Basic. In certain cases it may be desirable to
 *  force the use of a weaker authentication scheme. 
 * </p>
 *
 * @author Oleg Kalnichevski
 */
public class AlternateAuthenticationExample {

    /**
     * Constructor for BasicAuthenticatonExample.
     */
    public AlternateAuthenticationExample() {
        super();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.getState().setCredentials(new AuthScope("myhost", 80, "myrealm"),
                new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password"));
        // Suppose the site supports several authetication schemes: NTLM and Basic
        // Basic authetication is considered inherently insecure. Hence, NTLM authentication
        // is used per default

        // This is to make HttpClient pick the Basic authentication scheme over NTLM & Digest
        List authPrefs = new ArrayList(3);
        authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.BASIC);
        authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.NTLM);
        authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.DIGEST);
        client.getParams().setParameter(AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY, authPrefs);

        GetMethod httpget = new GetMethod("http://myhost/protected/auth-required.html");

        try {
            int status = client.executeMethod(httpget);
            // print the status and response
            System.out.println(httpget.getStatusLine());
            System.out.println(httpget.getResponseBodyAsString());
        } finally {
            // release any connection resources used by the method
            httpget.releaseConnection();
        }
    }
}