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java.net.Authenticator support

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There is a standard way to authenticate against servers and proxies, which is the java.net.Authenticator. While you provide a way to set a Proxy or a ProxySelector directly, as default fallback you use the system default proxy selector.

It would be very nice if you could also use the “System default Authenticator” if none is set explicitly and also support setting a java.net.Authenticator explicitly instead of your own okhttp3.Authenticator.

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Created 5 years ago
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swankjessecommented, Sep 3, 2018

I’d love to talk to users & operators before adding new behavior. We want to be secure-by-default and that might mean not supporting BASIC auth over a plaintext channel, even if that was common once upon a time.

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yschimkecommented, Apr 25, 2020

And maybe moving the JavaNetAuthenticator out of okhttp-urlconnection into okhttp as it is not URLConnection specific and hopefully should not be removed once okhttp-urlconnection gets removed due to being deprecated. (And maybe JavaNetCookieJar alongside)

Done in https://github.com/square/okhttp/pull/5978

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