An Android activity that will demonstrate basic authentication mechanism

MainActivity.java

package com.webile.basicauth;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        basicAuthDemo();
    }
    
    private static final String HOST_NAME = <Your host name>;
    private static final String URL = <Your url here>;
    private static final String USER_NAME = <User name>;
    private static final String PASSWORD = <Password>;
    private void basicAuthDemo() {
        DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        try {
            httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
                    new AuthScope(HOST_NAME, 443),
                    new UsernamePasswordCredentials(USER_NAME, PASSWORD));

            HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(URL);

            System.out.println("executing request" + httpget.getRequestLine());
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
            System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
            if (entity != null) {
                System.out.println("Response content length: " + entity.getContentLength());
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        } catch(Exception e){
        	e.printStackTrace();
        }finally {
            // When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,
            // shut down the connection manager to ensure
            // immediate deallocation of all system resources
            httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
        }
    }
}