org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth
Class RFC2617Scheme

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.RFC2617Scheme

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthScheme

Direct Known Subclasses:

BasicScheme, DigestScheme

public abstract class RFC2617Scheme
extends Object
implements AuthScheme

Abstract authentication scheme class that lays foundation for all RFC 2617 compliant authetication schemes and provides capabilities common to all authentication schemes defined in RFC 2617.

Author:

Oleg Kalnichevski

Constructor Summary

RFC2617Scheme()
Default constructor for RFC2617 compliant authetication schemes.

Method Summary

String	getParameter(String name) Returns authentication parameter with the given name, if available.
protected Map<String,String>	getParameters() Returns authentication parameters map.
String	getRealm() Returns authentication realm.
void	processChallenge(String challenge) Processes the given challenge token.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScheme

authenticate, getSchemeName, isComplete, isConnectionBased

Constructor Detail

RFC2617Scheme

public RFC2617Scheme()

Default constructor for RFC2617 compliant authetication schemes.

Since:

3.0

Method Detail

processChallenge

public void processChallenge(String challenge)
                      throws MalformedChallengeException

Processes the given challenge token. Some authentication schemes may involve multiple challenge-response exchanges. Such schemes must be able to maintain the state information when dealing with sequential challenges

Specified by:

processChallenge in interface AuthScheme

Parameters:

challenge - the challenge string

Throws:

MalformedChallengeException - is thrown if the authentication challenge is malformed

Since:

3.0

getParameters

protected Map<String,String> getParameters()

Returns authentication parameters map. Keys in the map are lower-cased.

Returns:

the map of authentication parameters

getParameter

public String getParameter(String name)

Returns authentication parameter with the given name, if available.

Specified by:

getParameter in interface AuthScheme

Parameters:

name - The name of the parameter to be returned

Returns:

the parameter with the given name

getRealm

public String getRealm()

Returns authentication realm. The realm may not be null.

Specified by:

getRealm in interface AuthScheme

Returns:

the authentication realm