FLUTTER How to implement Digest Authentification

Question

to implement a normal HTTP Request is very easy. But to implement a Digest Authentification I do not really know how to implement.

In the best case you can discribe it for Flutter but I do not mind if it is in another language.

Thank You!

Solution

The Dart HttpClient supports digest. If you know the realm in advance, call addCredentials before making the request. If not, implement the authenticate callback which will pass the scheme and realm back to you. You should then call addCredentials from your implementation of the callback.

You can still use package:http with an HttpClient, by passing it in:

  HttpClient authenticatingClient = HttpClient();
  authenticatingClient.addCredentials(url, realm, credentials);
  http.Client client = http.IOClient(authenticatingClient);