Re: Re: [android-developers] about HTTP Auth in DownloadManager

You probably need to add the proper (basic) authentication header using the

addRequestHeader() for this to work:

 

does it only affect the next download session, will it affect all the download session?

 

btw, is basic scheme api available in android?

 

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nicefuture

 

From: Nikolay Elenkov

Date: 2012-06-15 15:30

To: android-developers

Subject: Re: [android-developers] about HTTP Auth in DownloadManager

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:17 PM, nicefuture <nicefuture@126.com> wrote:

 

>

> Then, I tried to implement the http authentication in my application, BUT

> I failed, I found the behavior is very strange, below is the step:

>

>

>

> 1.牋牋牋 I already know the website抯 userid and password, I tested using

> the path contain userinfo, as below:

>

> http://tma:nokiatma@bewww05.wirelessfuture.com/Onlinetest/download/To_Content/descriptors/audio/dd_audio_mp4.dd

>

>

> 2.牋牋牋 In my guess, the Download Manager should work well, and status

> 200 should be reported. BUT, still status 401 is reported. And from the

> tcpdump, it is very strange, it obviously successfully be authenticated and

> retrieve the content, but then the client start a new http get, which cause

> to the status 401 occurred.牋 I wonder why the extra http get procedure

> happened??

>

 

You probably need to add the proper (basic) authentication header using the

addRequestHeader() for this to work:

 

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.Request.html#addRequestHeader(java.lang.String,

java.lang.String)

 

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