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+++ b/gwt-client/src/main/java/org/dive4elements/river/client/server/auth/was/Request.java	Thu Apr 25 15:23:37 2013 +0200
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+package org.dive4elements.river.client.server.auth.was;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URI;
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+public class Request extends HttpGet {
+
+    private final static String VERSION = "1.1";
+    private final static String REQUEST_SAML_RESPONSE = "GetSAMLResponse";
+    private final static String METHOD_AUTH_PASSWORD =
+        "urn:opengeospatial:authNMethod:OWS:1.0:password";
+
+    private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Request.class);
+
+    public Request(String uri) {
+        String request = uri + "?VERSION=" + VERSION + "&REQUEST=" +
+            REQUEST_SAML_RESPONSE + "&METHOD=" + METHOD_AUTH_PASSWORD +
+            "&ANONYMOUS=TRUE&CREDENTIALS=";
+        this.setURI(URI.create(request));
+    }
+
+    public Request(String uri, String user, String pass, String encoding) {
+        try {
+            String base64user = this.toBase64(user, encoding);
+            String base64pass = this.toBase64(pass, encoding);
+
+            String request = uri + "?VERSION=" + VERSION + "&REQUEST=" +
+                REQUEST_SAML_RESPONSE + "&METHOD=" + METHOD_AUTH_PASSWORD +
+                "&CREDENTIALS=" + base64user + "," + base64pass;
+
+            this.setURI(URI.create(request));
+        }
+        catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            logger.error(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String toBase64(String value, String encoding) throws
+        UnsupportedEncodingException {
+        if (encoding == null) {
+            encoding = "utf-8";
+        }
+        try {
+            return new String(Base64.encodeBase64(value.getBytes(encoding)));
+        }
+        catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            logger.warn("Can't encode string with encoding " + encoding +
+                    ". Falling back to utf-8. " + e);
+            return this.toBase64(value, "utf-8");
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+// vim: set et si fileencoding=utf-8 ts=4 sw=4 tw=80:
+