Any way to add HTTP Header info before redirect?

Question

I have a third party web site that requires basic authentication. My servlet knows the userid and password from its own database. Is there some way I can add the encoded authorization header before I do a response.sendRedirect( ) ??
I just can't find a way to do this, even by creating a wrapper class for HttpServeletRequest that uses the request supplied to my servlet for all its work (the container must use request info that is not in the HttpServletRequest interface).
I was thinking that I could have my servlet add the request Header for basic authentication and do a forward(..) to another servlet in my context, which in turn does a response.sendRedirect( ) to the third party BBS, but I can't find ANY way to muck with the request Headers. Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
-- Dave D.

Answer 1

I too am in need of this now... was a solution ever found? Can someone procide one?
HttpServletRequest req = context.getRequest();
HttpServletResponse res = context.getResponse();
HttpSession ses = req.getSession(true);
res.setHeader("sH", "setanewHeader");
res.addHeader("aH", "addanewHeader");
res.sendRedirect(res.encodeRedirectURL( req.getHeader("referer") );
i can't seem to reference sH or aH in my page and they don't seem to be in the response.
thx