How to access service using http authentication

The web service uses the HTTP Digest Access authentication protocol to authenticate the calls made to the SOAP APIs.The Web Service server implements the server side of the protocol described in RFC 2617 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt).

How can a java client access this service? What kind of toolkit or api can I use ?

Thanks a lot if anyone can help.

[392 byte] By [hcw] at [2007-9-30 5:00:47]
# 1
You could look in to Apache Commons HttpClient, which can do the authentication automatically for you. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/authentication.html
joonasl at 2007-7-1 15:43:15 > top of Java-index,Security,Other Security APIs, Tools, and Issues...
# 2
But I wonder how it can be used with axis in order to invoke a web service.Could anyone tell me ?
hcw at 2007-7-1 15:43:15 > top of Java-index,Security,Other Security APIs, Tools, and Issues...