Apache HttpClient (4.1 and newer): how to do basic authentication?

Question

How do I add basic authentication for the default client of the httpClient library? I have seen examples where they use client.getCredentialProvider(), however I th

Answer 1

Another modern option for 4.3 is to use the Fluent extension:

Executor executor = Executor.newInstance()
        .auth(new HttpHost("somehost"), "username", "password")
        .auth(new HttpHost("securehost", 443, "https"), "username", "password") // https example
        .auth(new HttpHost("myproxy", 8080), "username", "password")
        .authPreemptive(new HttpHost("myproxy", 8080));

String content = executor.execute(Request.Get("http://somehost/"))
        .returnContent().asString();