I am using an `HttpsUrlConnection` with Basic Authentication by using an `Authenticator` and setting a default `Authenticator` object like this:

```
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
        return new PasswordAuthentication("user", "userpass"
            .toCharArray());
    }
});

```

When I access my web-service the connection calls my `getPasswordAuthentication()` method to get the credentials and sends this to the web-server. This works allright as long as the password is correct. :)

However, it just happened that someone changed the basic authentication password on the web-server and then my request did not return. 

I debugged it and what happens is that my call to `getInputStream()` never returns. The `HttpsUrlConnection` does get a 401 response and reacts to this internally by getting the same credentials again. But since I only provided one user and password this will fail again (and again...). 

So my question is: How can I prevent this and where is there a hook to react to a wrong password (resp. a 401 response) so I can show an appropriate error message and cancel the request?

Here is an extract of the stack trace of the methods that are called repeatingly on `HttpsUrlConnection`:

```
1: MyOwnHttpConnection$3.getPasswordAuthentication() line: 99   
2: Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication(InetAddress, int, String, String, String) line: 162  
3: HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl).getAuthorizationCredentials(String) line: 1205 
4: HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl).processAuthHeader(String, String) line: 1178   
5: HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl).processResponseHeaders() line: 1118    
6: HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl).retrieveResponse() line: 1044  
7: HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl).getInputStream() line: 523 
8: HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream() line: 283    

```