[jbosstools-dev] how to disable Eclipse UserValidationDialog?

[Snjezana Peco]

On 11/7/2012 5:01 PM, André Dietisheim wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 04:51 PM, Snjezana Peco wrote:
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12368?focusedCommentId=12715308&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12715308 
>> is also caused by changing the Authenticator.
>>
>
> oh, so looks like the mess is propagating :(
>
> As I see it the default implementation in org.eclipse.ui should get 
> raised to a level where different plugins can contribute solutions to 
> their needs. The shortcomings of the NetAuthenticator in 
> org.eclipse.ui was filed in 2007 and is still not resolved: 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=196780
> The 2 follow-up bugzillas 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=312228 and 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=299020 are also not 
> resolved yet, IBM says that they dont have enough resources.
> On top of this one should then convince the different plugins that 
> currently override the NetAuthenticator to drop their Override and use 
> the enhanced mechanism.
> Not the easiest task at hand, but without that I think we'll keep 
> having unpredictable results.
> Alternatively we could of course also stop using UrlConnection and 
> switch to Apache HttpClient. We would then of course have to watch and 
> read the Eclipse proxy preferences.
>
> WDYT?
>

The Apache HttpClient doesn't support NTLMv2 authentication.

Snjeza

>> Snjeza
>>
>> On 11/7/2012 4:40 PM, André Dietisheim wrote:
>>> Hi Snjezana
>>>
>>> good point!
>>> I already found out about this when looking at different Eclipse 
>>> plugins. EGit does it, Scout and apparently ECF, too. Quite a mess 
>>> to be honest: A bad API in the jdk UrlConnection, a poor 
>>> implementation in org.eclipse.ui and here we are: plenty of plugins 
>>> overriding the Authenticator with unpredictable results.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> André
>>>
>>> On 11/07/2012 04:21 PM, Snjezana Peco wrote:
>>>> I think you can disable it by setting your own authenticator.
>>>> You can check how ECF sets its authenticator using the 
>>>> org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.UrlConnectionRetrieveFileTransfer.UrlConnectionAuthenticator 
>>>> class and the Authenticator.setDefault method.
>>>>
>>>> Snjeza
>>>>
>>>> On 11/6/2012 3:12 PM, André Dietisheim wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> In OpenShift tooling I have a dialog that allows you to 
>>>>> create/edit connections to OpenShift. Behind the scenes I'm using 
>>>>> HttpUrlConnection to talk to the OpenShift REST service. If I 
>>>>> provide invalid user-credentials Eclipse pops up a dialog for the 
>>>>> user to provide username and password on top of my dialog.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12999
>>>>>
>>>>> It turns out that Eclipse is registering it's very own 
>>>>> Authenticator in HttpUrlConnection which is invoking the Eclipse 
>>>>> credentials dialog if the Http response is 401.
>>>>> Does anybody know how to disable this in Eclipse? I'm pretty 
>>>>> stuck, I'd appreciate any input.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> André
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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