On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:27:39 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfu...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.net.http/share/classes/java/net/http/HttpClient.java line 418:
>> 
>>> 416:          * the {@link Authenticator} will not be invoked for the 
>>> corresponding
>>> 417:          * authentication.
>>> 418:          *
>> 
>> Reading this makes me wonder if this should be normative, as in part of the 
>> spec rather than a note for developers using the API. Has that been 
>> discussed?
>
> When to use the Authenticator (or not) is typically implementation dependent. 
> We should have documented how our implementation used the authenticator when 
> the API was added in JDK 11. I am not sure we should make this text 
> normative, but if you believe we should I will not object. Do you think we 
> should?

Would it be better as an implNote then? I guess it's possible that other 
implementations of the API might not behave this way.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21408#discussion_r1799697312

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