HTTPUnit Tests for Authorization

[andreea...@googlemail.com]

I am using HTTP Unit for testing my authorization framework.

I have problems when I try to test the cases after the Log-in, because the tests always check the first returned status codes. When someone who is not authenticated tries to access a protected resource, the first status code is 401, he has the chance to provide his credentials and after log-in the status code is 200.

How can I program the test to perform the authentication and wait for the last status code?

This is how I did it until now. It failes, because the first status code is 401 and not 200. Is there a keep alive option?

@Test
public void testReqRestrictedResourceWithValidRole() throws Exception
{
// Request a protected page with valid credentials and valid role
// protectedUrl requires role ADMIN
// user has role ADMIN
String username = "user";
String password = "password";
String decUserPass = username + ":" + password;
String base64encUserPass =
DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(decUserPass.getBytes());
webClient.addRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + base64encUserPass);
Page page = webClient.getPage(protectedUrl);
int statuscode = page.getWebResponse().getStatusCode();
assertEquals(statuscode, 200, "Wrong statuscode.");
}

Thanks!