I’ve seen a lot of people suggesting really complex solutions to how to use Basic Auth on Android, it’s actually really simple, it’s just:

poster.addHeader(BasicScheme.authenticate(
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username,password), "US-ASCII", false));

Full usage example:

final HttpPost poster = new HttpPost(Constants.COMMAND_URL);
poster.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
				
poster.addHeader(BasicScheme.authenticate(
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username,password), "US-ASCII", false));
				
final HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USER_AGENT, Constants.UA);
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, cmd.connTimeout);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, cmd.soTimeout);
				
HttpClient client = new SSLHttpClient(params);
client = client.sslClient(client);
final HttpResponse response = client.execute(poster); 

Thanks to http://janis.peisenieks.lv/en/76/english-making-an-ssl-connection-via-android/

Android doesn’t really work well with SSL, so use these files:
http://www.moorhenapps.com/code/SSLHttpClient.java
http://www.moorhenapps.com/code/SSLFactory.java

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