[mb-devel] Using the Webservice Digest Authentication

[Matthias Friedrich]

On Tuesday, 2006-12-19, Paul Taylor wrote:
> Hi I am trying to to submit Puid/MusicBrainz pairs, but I am struggling 
> to get the digest authentication, the Java code below fails with 
> HttpCode 401 (Authorization Failure). Ive read up a few articles, but 
> exactly how it works seem to vary, is there anymore info on the 
> MusicBrainz usage, or can anyone see where I am going wrong with the 
> implementation below ( the user and password have been changed)

I'm not sure if J2SE supports HTTP Digest Authentication, I've seen
no reference to it in the docs. You probably have to use a separate
library, maybe the Apache Commons HTTP client library, unless you want
to implement digest authentication manually.

Oh, and please don't try this on the main server. Use the test server
(http://test.musicbrainz.org) instead.

Cheers,
	Matthias