title: why getPasswordAuthentication() is not being called?
body: <pre><code>import java.io.BufferedReader;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.io.InputStreamReader;
  import java.net.Authenticator;
  import java.net.MalformedURLException;
  import java.net.PasswordAuthentication;
  import java.net.URL;
  
  import sun.net.www.protocol.http.AuthCacheImpl;
  import sun.net.www.protocol.http.AuthCacheValue;
  
  
  
  public class RunHttpSpnego {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws MalformedURLException,
        IOException {
      String urlString = "http://www.yahoo.com";
      String username = "XXXXXXXXX";
      String password = "XXXXXXXX";
       // This is modified after the question is being asked. Now this code works fine
       System.setProperty("http.proxyHost","176.x.xx.xx") ;
      System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "8080") ;
  
      Authenticator.setDefault(new MyAuthenticator(username, password));
  
  
      URL url = new URL(urlString);
      InputStream content = (InputStream) url.getContent();
      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content));
      String line;
      while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(line);
      }
      System.out.println("Done.");
    }
  
    static class MyAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
      private String username, password;
  
      public MyAuthenticator(String user, String pass) {
        username = user;
        password = pass;
      }
  
      protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
        System.out.println("Requesting Host  : " + getRequestingHost());
        System.out.println("Requesting Port  : " + getRequestingPort());
        System.out.println("Requesting Prompt : " + getRequestingPrompt());
        System.out.println("Requesting Protocol: "
            + getRequestingProtocol());
        System.out.println("Requesting Scheme : " + getRequestingScheme());
        System.out.println("Requesting Site  : " + getRequestingSite());
        return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
      }
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>-- What do i check now , getPasswordAuthentication is not at all being called ? I'm sure my IE is authentication enabled , but not sure what type of authentication was it.</p>