[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-240?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin... ] Demian Calcaprina commented on DROOLS-240: ------------------------------------------ I also made a test using java.net.URLConnection that reproduces the issue: import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import org.codehaus.plexus.util.Base64; public class UrlTest { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String webPage = "http://localhost:8080/drools-/guvnor/rest/packages/myrule/binary"; String name = "admin"; String password = "admin"; String authString = name + ":" + password; byte[] authEncBytes = Base64.encodeBase64(authString.getBytes()); String authStringEnc = new String(authEncBytes); URL url = new URL(webPage); URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection(); ((HttpURLConnection) urlConnection).setRequestMethod( "HEAD" ); //If you comment the next line, last modified will return 0! urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + authStringEnc); System.out.println(urlConnection.getLastModified()); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira