HTTP authentication in J2ME

Question

I'm trying to create a J2ME app, which talks to webserver using HttpConnection connector.

When I am talking to the WebServer, I have to authenticate using Basic HTTP auth, which normally goes like

http://username:[email protected]/rest/api/method

But in J2ME, when I construct a url of this form, it doesn't work.

I also tried adding request property, hc = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(url); hc.setRequestProperty("User", "alagu"); hc.setRequestProperty("pass", "mypassword");

but didn't work.

Has anyone done j2me based HTTP auth before? Thanks in advance.