java - Passing username to a HttpGet request -

i need access api works this:

curl https://api.com/ratings/v1/ -u [your token here]: 

the token username should passed httpget request. trying same in following way using java:

credentialsprovider credentialsprovider = new basiccredentialsprovider(); credentialsprovider.setcredentials(authscope.any, new usernamepasswordcredentials("usrname", "passwrd")); httphost proxy = new httphost("proxy.com", 8080, "http"); httpclient httpclient = httpclients.custom().setproxy(proxy).setdefaultcredentialsprovider(credentialsprovider).build();  httpget toesget = new httpget("https://api.com/ratings/v1/");      toesget.setheader("accept", "application/json");     toesget.addheader("username", "[your token here]");      try {         httpresponse toes = httpclient.execute(toesget);         system.out.println(toes.getstatusline());         system.out.println(toes.getentity().tostring());      } catch (exception e) {         e.printstacktrace();     } 

i behind proxy, creating httphost proxy details, setting proxy httpclient object , passing credentials proxy authentication using credentialsprovider in following lines of code:

httphost proxy = new httphost("proxy.com", 8080, "http"); httpclient httpclient = httpclients.custom().setproxy(proxy).setdefaultcredentialsprovider(credentialsprovider).build(); 

i passing username httpget adding header this:

toesget.addheader("username", "[your token here]"); 

when run code, response: http/1.1 401 unauthorized

this indicates not passing username httpget request in right way(or mean else?). what's right way of passing username request?

any appreciated, thank you!

note: usrname , passwrd set in credentialsprovider proxy authentication. have nothing httpget request itself. token need pass different usrname provided in credentials.

i haven’t used apache httpcomponents, understanding have set credentials specific hosts:

credentialsprovider credentialsprovider = new basiccredentialsprovider(); httphost proxy = new httphost("proxy.com", 8080, "http"); credentialsprovider.setcredentials(new authscope(proxy),     new usernamepasswordcredentials("usrname", "passwrd")); credentialsprovider.setcredentials(new authscope("api.com", authscope.any_port),     new usernamepasswordcredentials("apiuser", "apipassword")); 

note: not type "apiuser" or "apipassword" in code. showing placeholders. replace them correct user , password accessing api.com. (i pointing out because, based on code in question, i’m not sure if understood not supposed use literal string "[your token here]".)