How can I login to a site that is .htaccess password protected with java

Question

Forgive me if this is a dumb question. I am have never done this before and haven't been able to find out how to do this. I want to send some xml (passportRequest) to a server that is listening. The hard part is this server is password protected with htaccess. I have the username and password and I tried adding it to the url (ie https://user:password@server....) but not luck. I read somewhere that I can't do that anymore...is that right? I tried the code below but no luck there either. Any of you guys have any tutorials you could point me to or suggestions? Thanks!
String urlStr = "https://www.myserver.com/pathto/requestlistener";
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
con.setRequestProperty("reqData", passportRequest);
sun.misc.BASE64Encoder encoder = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder();
String encryptedPassword = encoder.encode((customerId+":"+password).getBytes());
con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", encryptedPassword);

Answer 1

con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " +
encryptedPassword);should do the trick.AWESOME! I was so close. Thanks for the tip. Does
"Basic" just tell the server what type of
authentication to use? What are the other options
available? Where can I learn more about this stuff?
I figured it was something simple like that, but when
no one responded I was beginning to wonder if it was
possible. I didn't know why it would be (its setting
headers and that shouldn't matter where you are doing
it from, browser or code). Thanks again!All of this (including what you have to supply to log in from any client, Java or not) is in the information that the first link in my previous post displays. However - you have to read it.