Basic Authentication for Http Request in Android [Assembla Example]

This example explains how http request is built with basic authentication in Android.

"border: 1px dashed rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 5px; overflow: auto; font-family: Andale Mono,Lucida Console,Monaco,fixed,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; width: 100%;">







package test.uitestproject;




import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.URI;




import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;

import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;

import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;

import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;




import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.TextView;




public class UITestProjectActivity extends Activity {

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        

        TextView returnedText;

        returnedText = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.returnedPage);

        BufferedReader in = null;

        try {

             DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

             client.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(new AuthScope(null, -1), new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username,password));

             HttpGet request = new HttpGet();

             request.addHeader("Accept", "application/xml");

             request.setURI(new URI("http://www.assembla.com/spaces/my_spaces"));

             HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

             in = new BufferedReader

             (new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));

             StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");

             String line = "";

             String NL = System.getProperty("line.separator");

             while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

                 sb.append(line + NL);

             }

             in.close();

             String page = sb.toString();

             System.out.println(page);

             

             returnedText.setText(page);

        } catch (Exception e) {

         e.printStackTrace();

         returnedText.setText(e.getMessage());

        } finally {

            if (in != null) {

                try {

                    in.close();

                    } catch (IOException e) {

                    e.printStackTrace();

                    returnedText.setText(e.getMessage());

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

Categories: Android