Java Help - Re: Authroization Header and sendRedirect

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Re: Authroization Header and sendRedirect

Ram

2004-12-21, 4:00 pm

I have the same problem with sending Authorization and redirecting the
url. Please help.

-Thanks
-Ram
-rgande@gmail.com

marcmnich9876@my-deja.com wrote:
> I'm trying to redirect from a servlet to a page
> that is username/password protected and normally
> pops up a "username and password" window. I want
> to prevent the window from coming up by sending
> the setHeader("Authorization",...) info.
>
> Has anyone got this to work?
>
> Here's what I am using:
>
> String authString = "someusername" + ":"
> + "mypassword";
> String auth = "Basic " +
> new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder
> ().encode(authString.getBytes());
> String bare = new
> sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode(authString.getByt\
> es());
>
> response.setHeader("Authorization", auth);
>
> response.sendRedirect
> ("http://www.somedomain.com");
>
>
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