Please Look into this.!! Viewing HTTP Server Response

Question

Please consider this urgently..
How can I view the response Headers sent by the Server back to the Client??(The Client is a java application which has invoked the servlet via the URL class)
It is possible to check the client Headers with the following in your servlet code:
String contentType = request.getContent();
System.out.println(contentType);
How can I check the response headers of the server which it sends back to the client?
If on the server I say : response.setContentType("text/html");
what method I need to invoke on my client to see this content Type???
Please can any one respond..
ajay

Answer 1

This problem occurred to me - the applet needs to know the authorization data (ie: the user) which the servlet extracted via the request.getHeader("Authorization") method.
But if the browser obliged the servlet by demanding a user and password in response to servlet calling request.getHeader("Authorization"), one would think the browser would know the user and password.
Isn't there a way for the applet to obtain the user and password directly from the browser without having the servlet send it back via something like response.setHeader("user",user) ?