Android httpclient - getting a file with preemptive authentication?

When I tackled this last year, I gave up on HttpClient's native pre-emptive HTTP authentication and just rolled the header myself.

Alternative 1: Please read Http Basic Authentication with Android that proposes a solution based on the HttpClient 4 official docs. I've not tested it by myself, so I'd be happy to know if it really works. Edit: I've just tried it and it works like a charm.

Alternative 2: You can also add the "Authorization" HTTP header as proposed by @CommonsWare: post. AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + Base64. Encode(username+":"+password)); In this case you need a Base64 encoder to encode the string containing the username and the password.

You can find a lot of implementations in the Internet.

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