Asset downloader: send credentials when URI authority is the same, even if the...

                if (!uri.isAbsolute())

                    throw new URISyntaxException(uri.toString(), "URI referenced from entity must be absolute");

                if (uri.getScheme().equalsIgnoreCase(baseURI.getScheme()) &&

                        uri.getAuthority().equalsIgnoreCase(baseURI.getAuthority())) {

                    // resource is on same server, send Authorization

	            // send credentials when asset has same URI authority as baseURI

	            // we have to construct these helper URIs because

	            // "https://server:443" is NOT equal to "https://server" otherwise

	            URI     baseUriAuthority = new URI(baseURI.getScheme(), null, baseURI.getHost(), baseURI.getPort(), null, null, null),

			            assetUriAuthority = new URI(uri.getScheme(), null, uri.getHost(), baseURI.getPort(), null, null, null);

                if (baseUriAuthority.equals(assetUriAuthority)) {

	                Log.d(TAG, "Asset is on same server, sending credentials");

                    WebDavResource file = new WebDavResource(collection, uri);

                    file.get("image/*");

                    return file.getContent();

                } else {

                    // resource is on an external server, don't send Authorization

                } else

	                // resource is on an external server, don't send credentials

                    return IOUtils.toByteArray(uri);

            }

            }

        };

	}

}