AsyncHttpClient Authentication failed

Question

I trying to get authenticated from a website. I am using AsyncHttpClient. Heres the code that I am trying.

Here is my code,

public class LoginActivity extends Activity {

    String tag = "LoginActivity";
    Button requestBtn;
    AsyncHttpClient httpClient = new AsyncHttpClient();

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);

        requestBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.upload_file);

        PersistentCookieStore myCookieStore = new PersistentCookieStore(this);
        httpClient.setCookieStore(myCookieStore);

        httpClient.setBasicAuth(ApplicationConstants.userName,
                ApplicationConstants.password, new AuthScope(
                        "http://*.*.*.*:8080/someUrl", 8080,
                        AuthScope.ANY_REALM));




        requestBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
      httpClient.get("http://*.*.*.*:8080/someurl",new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {

                @Override
                public void onSuccess(String response) {
                System.out.println(response);
                Log.d("Sucessful upload","Onsucess" + response);
                }

                @Override
                public void onFailure(Throwable arg0,String arg1) {

                Log.d("LoginActivity",arg0.toString());
                arg0.printStackTrace();
                super.onFailure(arg0, arg1);
                }
            });
        }

    }
    });
}
}

I get an exception when I tap on the button. It says authentication failed Exception Logcat:

02-27 16:02:42.930: D/LoginActivity(8869): org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException: Unauthorized
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869): org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException: Unauthorized
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpResponseHandler.sendResponseMessage(AsyncHttpResponseHandler.java:235)
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpRequest.makeRequest(AsyncHttpRequest.java:79)
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpRequest.makeRequestWithRetries(AsyncHttpRequest.java:95)
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at com.loopj.android.http.AsyncHttpRequest.run(AsyncHttpRequest.java:57)
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:442)
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
02-27 16:02:42.930: W/System.err(8869):     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
02-27 16:02:42.940: W/System.err(8869):     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
02-27 16:02:42.940: W/System.err(8869):     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
02-27 16:02:42.940: W/System.err(8869):     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)

What wrong I am doing? The URL I am using is correct.

Answer 1

I came up with another solution, because I was having issues with in-between-proxies that didn't like how the Authorization header was built by using the above proposed solution and also the default (buggy) setBasicAuth(username, password) implementation of AsyncHttpClient.

So I added the header myself, doing the BASE64 username/password encoding myself, but using the addHeader() method inherited from the parent client implementation.

It works now.

asyncHttpClient.addHeader(
  "Authorization",
    "Basic " + Base64.encodeToString(
      (username+":"+password).getBytes(),Base64.NO_WRAP)
);

I hope this helps somebody.