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How to authenticate HttpURLConnection?

 
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Hi,

I am trying to find out how the *beep* my servlet can authenticate a HttpURLConnection but I only end up in frustration. The servlet is running on the intranet but sometimes it needs to access data e.g. from URLs outside the net and then the browser should ask the user for authorization to the proxy server in order to get the input stream from the connection. See the following code:



But of course this fails. I have seen examples where they do:



And it actually worked, but I don't want to hard-code some username and password because the servlet should restrict users which don't have access.

I also tried solving this by redirecting to the url we want to read from to trigger the proxy authentication in the browser but that didn't work.

This is probably a very stupid question but this is only my second servlet so I'm sure there are people here who knows better

Hope someone can help me.

/M
 
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