Hi Artem,

On 04/12/15 11:41, Artem Smotrakov wrote:
Hello,

Please review this small fix for DigestAuthentication class.

1. Added a check in DigestAuthentication.setNonce(String) that nonce is not null. NPE may happen if a buggy HTTP server returns "WWW-Authenticate" header which doesn't contain a "nonce" field. According to RFCs 2069 [1] and 2617 [2], this is not expected behaviour, but it would be better if an HTTP client threw a checked IOException instead of NPE.


That's fine.

2. Updated DigestAuthentication.setQop(String) method to accept both a whitespace and a comma as a delimiter. RFC 2617 [2] says that "qop" may contain more than one token, but it doesn't specify a delimiter for "qop" field in "WWW-Authenticate" header. There is an example of "WWW-Authenticate" header in RFC 2617 [2] where a comma is used as a delimiter of value in "qop" field.


It looks like the BNF specification mandates a comma and optional linear white space. So, the old code was buggy, but we didn't see the problem because there is typically only at most ever one value used for the qop field. But, to be strictly correct, we would have to check for TABs also. So, I think the correct behavior is to delimit using comma
and remove any white space

- Michael.

3. Added a test for Digest authentication.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8138990
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~asmotrak/http_auth_digest/webrev.00/

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2069
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617

Artem

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