Trying to send authorization credentials to archiva with httpclient - apache-httpclient-4.x

Question

I'm attempting to ping my archiva server, which isn't a problem on pages not requiring authorization. However, when I try to pingWithAutz, I cannot help but get a 403 error. Here is the relevant code snippet:
public FormValidation doTestConnection(#QueryParameter("url") String url,
#QueryParameter("username") String usr,
#QueryParameter("password") String pwd)
throws Exception {
if (url == null || url.equals("")) {
return FormValidation.error("Please, set a correct url");
}
url = url.endsWith("/") ? url.substring(0, url.length() - 1) : url;
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url + "/restServices/redbackServices/loginService/pingWithAutz");
String authzHeader = "Basic " + Base64Utility.encode(( usr + ":" + pwd ).getBytes());
post.setHeader("Authorization",authzHeader);
HttpClientBuilder builder = HttpClientBuilder.create();
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = builder.build();
CloseableHttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = httpclient.execute(post);
if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
return FormValidation.error("Cannot connect to the server. Response Code : " +
response.getStatusLine());
}
} catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
finally {
response.close();
}
return FormValidation.ok("Successfully connected to Archiva Server.");
}
What am I doing wrong that it won't authenticate properly?

Answer 1

You should try with a HttpGet as this service is expected a GET http and not a POST.
See http://archiva.apache.org/docs/2.2.0/rest-docs-redback-rest-api/resource_LoginService.html#path__loginService_ping.html
HTH