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    copied!<p>I'm building an Eclipse plugin that talks to a REST interface which uses Basic Authentication. When the authentication fails I would like to popup my plugin's settings dialog and retry. Normally I could use the static <code>Authenticator.setDefault()</code> to setup an authenticator for all <code>HttpURLConnection</code>'s for this, but since I am writing a plugin I don't want to overwrite Eclipse's default <code>Authenticator</code> (<code>org.eclipse.ui.internal.net.auth</code>);</p> <p>I thought of setting my custom <code>Authenticator</code> before loading and putting Eclipse's default back afterwards, but I imagine this will cause all sorts of race issues with multithreading so I quickly lost that notion.</p> <p>Google searches yield all sorts of results basically telling me it's not possible:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Java URLConnection API should have a setAuthenticator(Authenticator) method for making it easier to use this class in multi-threaded context where authentication is required.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-tip-basic-authentication-with-httpurlconnection/" rel="noreferrer">Source</a></p> <blockquote> <p>If applications contains few third party plugins and each plugin use its own Authenticator what we should do? Each invocation of "Authenticator.setDefault()" method rewrite previously defined Authenticator...</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4941958" rel="noreferrer">Source</a></p> <p>Are there any different approaches that might help me overcome this issue?</p>
 

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