Error "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized" with basic authentication in android - EWS 2010
android, basic-authentication, exchangewebservices, java
Solution
I was struggling with Android HTTP basic last week. I have tried maybe 3 or 4 different ways of doing it and always I found some problem. Right now the only way I managed to make it work was the simplest way.
UsernamePasswordCredentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(user, pass);
Header header = new BasicScheme().authenticate(credentials, mHttpRequest);
mHttpRequest.addHeader(header);
That worked for me with AndroidHttpClient.
Edit:
This is my full source code
https://gist.github.com/2642692
It's based on http://lukencode.com/2010/04/27/calling-web-services-in-android-using-httpclient/
Problem
I refer to this link to request to the server. The problem is sometime (not always, about 20% - 30%, means sometime I can get successful response), I got the 401 error and server response basic authorization challenge expected, but not found. Here is my code: ``` HttpRequestInterceptor preemptiveAuth = new HttpRequestInterceptor() { public void process(final HttpRequest request, final HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException { AuthState authState = (AuthState) context .getAttribute(ClientContext.TARGET_AUTH_STATE); CredentialsProvider credsProvider = (CredentialsProvider) context .getAttribute(ClientContext.CREDS_PROVIDER); HttpHost targetHost = (HttpHost) context .getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST); if (authState.getAuthScheme() == null) { AuthScope authScope = new AuthScope(targetHost.getHostName(), targetHost.getPort()); Credentials creds = credsProvider.getCredentials(authScope); if (creds != null) { authState.setAuthScheme(new BasicScheme()); authState.setCredentials(creds); } } } }; ``` Here is my authentication: ``` HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(SERVER_AUTH_URL); httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8"); httpPost.setHeader("Keep-Alive", "300"); httpPost.setHeader("Connection", "Keep-Alive"); StringEntity se = new StringEntity(myRequest, "UTF-8"); httpPost.setEntity(se); se.setContentType("text/xml"); se.setContentEncoding("gzip,deflate"); //add preemptiveAuth client.addRequestInterceptor(preemptiveAuth, 0); //Set the proxy ProxySelectorRoutePlanner routePlanner = new ProxySelectorRoutePlanner( client.getConnectionManager().getSchemeRegistry(), ProxySelector.getDefault()); client.setRoutePlanner(routePlanner); List<String> authPrefs = new ArrayList<String>(); authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.BASIC); authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.NTLM); authPrefs.add(AuthPolicy.DIGEST); client.getParams().setParameter("http.auth.scheme-priority", authPrefs); CredentialsProvider credProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider(); // client.getParams().setParameter("http.auth.scheme-priority", // authPrefs); credProvider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, new NTCredentials(getUsername(), getPassword(), "", getDomain())); Log.d(TAG, "repair excute"); client.setCredentialsProvider(credProvider); HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpPost); Log.d(TAG, "has excute"); ``` From the comment code, you can see I tried many ways, but the error wasn't disappear. Here is logcat say: ``` 05-02 10:28:21.724: D/dalvikvm(1169): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 11259 objects / 457352 bytes in 43ms 05-02 10:28:22.384: D/MainActivity(1169): repair excute 05-02 10:28:22.744: D/dalvikvm(1169): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 11481 objects / 447264 bytes in 67ms 05-02 10:28:22.894: D/dalvikvm(1169): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 1078 objects / 83928 bytes in 76ms 05-02 10:28:22.894: I/dalvikvm-heap(1169): Grow heap (frag case) to 3.833MB for 87396-byte allocation 05-02 10:28:23.034: D/dalvikvm(1169): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 58 objects / 3336 bytes in 143ms 05-02 10:28:23.124: W/DefaultRequestDirector(1169): Authentication error: basic authorization challenge expected, but not found 05-02 10:28:23.124: D/MainActivity(1169): has excute 05-02 10:28:23.124: E/MainActivity(1169): response error: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized ``` So, please tell me where is my problem. Thanks in advance. Update: the target server is Exchange Web Service 2010. For some reason, I don't want to use EWS API, I made my own xml request to connect to the server (this xml request works properly). And here is the response header from server When request failed: ``` Server Microsoft-IIS/7.5 WWW-Authenticate Negotiate WWW-Authenticate NTLM X-Powered-By ASP.NET Date Fri, 25 May 2012 03:47:57 GMT Content-Length 0 ``` When request success the first time: ``` Cache-Control private Transfer-Encoding chunked Content-Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 Server Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Set-Cookie exchangecookie=1d9d9b1d21064035ad375c8aecde2168; expires=Sat, 25-May-2013 04:00:46 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727 X-Powered-By ASP.NET Date Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:45 GMT ``` and the second time: ``` Cache-Control private Transfer-Encoding chunked Content-Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 Server Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-EwsPerformanceData RpcC=4;RpcL=0;LdapC=0;LdapL=0; X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727 X-Powered-By ASP.NET Date Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:47 GMT ``` The cookie is my problem, isn't it?