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Android: Downloading an NTLM-authentication-protected file

I want to download a file from a Sharepoint server that protected with NTLM authentication from my Android application. I found some tutorials and couldn't successful.

I tried using The Java CIFS Client Library and did not successful again.

I investigated this post: Manipulating SharePoint list items with Android (JAVA) and NTLM Authentication but i do not want to consume a webservice, i just want to download a file.

Any suggestions?

Solution

  • Did you use standard Java java.net.Authenticator http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/Authenticator.html? If it doesn't support NTLM check http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/auth/NTCredentials.html and related org.apache.http package. Also look at blog http://mrrask.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/android-authenticating-via-ntlm/ where it is shown how to use it. In par