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package org.apache.http.client;

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScheme;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthenticationException;
import org.apache.http.auth.MalformedChallengeException;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/** A handler for determining if an HTTP response represents an authentication challenge that was sent back to the client as a result of authentication failure.

Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed from multiple threads.

Since:4.0
Deprecated:(4.2) use AuthenticationStrategy
/** /** * A handler for determining if an HTTP response represents an authentication * challenge that was sent back to the client as a result of authentication * failure. * <p> * Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared * data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed * from multiple threads. * * @since 4.0 * * @deprecated (4.2) use {@link AuthenticationStrategy} */
@Deprecated public interface AuthenticationHandler {
Determines if the given HTTP response response represents an authentication challenge that was sent back as a result of authentication failure
Params:
  • response – HTTP response.
  • context – HTTP context.
Returns:true if user authentication is required, false otherwise.
/** * Determines if the given HTTP response response represents * an authentication challenge that was sent back as a result * of authentication failure * @param response HTTP response. * @param context HTTP context. * @return {@code true} if user authentication is required, * {@code false} otherwise. */
boolean isAuthenticationRequested( HttpResponse response, HttpContext context);
Extracts from the given HTTP response a collection of authentication challenges, each of which represents an authentication scheme supported by the authentication host.
Params:
  • response – HTTP response.
  • context – HTTP context.
Throws:
Returns:a collection of challenges keyed by names of corresponding authentication schemes.
/** * Extracts from the given HTTP response a collection of authentication * challenges, each of which represents an authentication scheme supported * by the authentication host. * * @param response HTTP response. * @param context HTTP context. * @return a collection of challenges keyed by names of corresponding * authentication schemes. * @throws MalformedChallengeException if one of the authentication * challenges is not valid or malformed. */
Map<String, Header> getChallenges( HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) throws MalformedChallengeException;
Selects one authentication challenge out of all available and creates and generates AuthScheme instance capable of processing that challenge.
Params:
  • challenges – collection of challenges.
  • response – HTTP response.
  • context – HTTP context.
Throws:
Returns:authentication scheme to use for authentication.
/** * Selects one authentication challenge out of all available and * creates and generates {@link AuthScheme} instance capable of * processing that challenge. * @param challenges collection of challenges. * @param response HTTP response. * @param context HTTP context. * @return authentication scheme to use for authentication. * @throws AuthenticationException if an authentication scheme * could not be selected. */
AuthScheme selectScheme( Map<String, Header> challenges, HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) throws AuthenticationException; }