Does this support Java 1.7?

[sammefford]

My code works fine against Java 1.8. But when I test against Java 1.7 every request gets a 401 response and has to resend. Then, if the payload isn't retryable, the resend goes through blank. No error is thrown, it just silently fails to send the payload with the second request. I'll put together steps to reproduce, but I wanted to first ask if this library has been tested with Java 1.7.

[rburgst]

the code is mainly used on android which only supports java 7 (at least up until now). I wouldnt know why there would be a difference running it on java 7 vs 8.

[sammefford]

It appears that the problem is because I had this:

DispatchingAuthenticator authenticator = new DispatchingAuthenticator.Builder()
  .with("digest", digestAuthenticator)
  .with("basic", basicAuthenticator)
  .build();

But I needed the connection to stay digest. On Java 1.8 it does. On Java 1.7 it tries basic first every time, then has to retry with digest. Very strange. If the payload is always retryable you may not notice. But once you send a non-retryable (e.g. InputStream) request, you'll notice the second request body is empty. For the moment, a work-around I'm seeing is if I don't add both schemes to the authenticator, and instead just use basic when it's needed and digest when it's needed.

[rburgst]

it should usually pick the one that is requested by the server, check the WWW-Authenticate header of the server.

[rburgst]

is this still an issue with the latest threading fixes?