HTTP Basic auth in HttpOutboundGateway

[thomaskoenig]

As far as I can tell the only Message header parameters that are used on an outbound HTTP request are REQUEST_URL and REQUEST_METHOD.
Is HTTP Basic authentication supported somehow?

[thomaskoenig]

Well, I guess I can create a Commons.HttpClient with authentication scopes and set it on a CommonsHttpRequestExecutor that I use as the executor of the outbound gateway

[Mark Fisher]

That's the best approach for 1.0.x.

The next 2.0 milestone will be building on Spring 3.0's RestTemplate, and so things will change a bit, but this will be a similarly configurable option (CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory).