(Android™) Http Digest Authentication

Demonstrates the DigestAuth property to do HTTP Digest Authentication.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    // To use HTTP Digest Authentication:
    http.put_Login("myLogin");
    http.put_Password("myPassword");
    http.put_DigestAuth(true);

    // If you would like to see the HTTP session log to see how 
    // HTTP digest authentication worked.
    http.put_SessionLogFilename("c:/temp/qa_output/sessionLog.txt");

    // Run the test using this URL with the credentials above.  
    // (Works while httpbin.org keeps the test endpoint available.)
    String jsonResponse = http.quickGetStr("https://httpbin.org/digest-auth/auth/myLogin/myPassword");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Response status code: " + String.valueOf(http.get_LastStatus()));

    Log.i(TAG, jsonResponse);

    // Output:

    // Response status code: 200
    // {
    //   "authenticated": true, 
    //   "user": "myLogin"
    // }

    // -----------------------------------------------
    // Here are the contents of the sessionLog.txt

    // ---- Sending Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:12 GMT ----
    // GET /digest-auth/auth/myLogin/myPassword HTTP/1.1
    // Host: httpbin.org
    // Accept: */*
    // Accept-Encoding: gzip
    // 
    // 
    // ---- Received Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:12 GMT ----
    // HTTP/1.1 401 UNAUTHORIZED
    // Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:12 GMT
    // Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    // Content-Length: 0
    // Connection: keep-alive
    // Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
    // WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="me@kennethreitz.com", nonce="fbc6733e2f4d126e7a92d19918f42b0f", qop="auth", opaque="5a14177dc4089cb22c019e6df4fdaadf", algorithm=MD5, stale=FALSE
    // Set-Cookie: stale_after=never; Path=/
    // Set-Cookie: fake=fake_value; Path=/
    // Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
    // Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
    // 
    // 
    // ---- Sending Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:12 GMT ----
    // GET /digest-auth/auth/myLogin/myPassword HTTP/1.1
    // Host: httpbin.org
    // Accept: */*
    // Accept-Encoding: gzip
    // Authorization: Digest ****
    // 
    // 
    // ---- Received Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:12 GMT ----
    // HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    // Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:23:13 GMT
    // Content-Type: application/json
    // Content-Length: 50
    // Connection: keep-alive
    // Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
    // Set-Cookie: fake=fake_value; Path=/
    // Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
    // Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
    // 
    // {
    //   "authenticated": true, 
    //   "user": "myLogin"
    // }

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}