android - How to handle Basic Authentication in WebView

Question

I've created an application which loads a WebView. In order to login, the website requires basic authentication. When i try to access the website via the default browser, I get a pop up box prompting me to enter my user name and password.

If I try to access the website via my application, I get error 401 and no pop up. I was wondering if someone could help me out?

Answer 1

I reckon a more elegant solution than the one Patrick describes would be to use the onReceivedHttpAuthRequest method of WebViewClient as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg30468.html

@Override
public void onReceivedHttpAuthRequest(WebView view, HttpAuthHandler handler, String host, String realm) {
    handler.proceed("username", "password");
}