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wildabeast
wildabeast

Reputation: 1832

How to supress authentication window when using URLConnection in Eclipse Plugin code

I have created an Eclipse Plugin, and within that I have created a Wizard by extending org.eclipse.jface.wizard.Wizard. In that I am using java.net.URLConnection to perform Basic Authentication with a server, like so:

String auth = new String(Base64.encodeBase64((username + ":" + password).getBytes()));
log(auth);

URL url = new URL(server);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();

// this fails -- can't stop the auth window when the username/password are invalid
conn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + auth);

monitor.beginTask("Authenticating: ", IProgressMonitor.UNKNOWN);
InputStream in = conn.getInputStream();

If the username & password are valid, then everything works fine. But if the username & password do not authenticate, Eclipse pops up its own "Password Required" window (which I don't want -- I want to manage the failed authentication myself). I would have thought that URLConnection.setAllowUserInteraction would stop this, but it has no effect.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 251

Answers (1)

Kane
Kane

Reputation: 8172

See extension point org.eclipse.equinox.security.loginModule.

Upvotes: 1

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