Package org.apache.http.auth

The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.

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Description

Interface Summary

AuthScheme	This interface represents an abstract challenge-response oriented authentication scheme.
AuthSchemeFactory	Factory for AuthScheme implementations.
Credentials	This interface represents a set of credentials consisting of a security principal and a secret (password) that can be used to establish user identity

Class Summary

AUTH	Constants and static helpers related to the HTTP authentication.
AuthSchemeRegistry	Authentication scheme registry that can be used to obtain the corresponding authentication scheme implementation for a given type of authorization challenge.
AuthScope	The class represents an authentication scope consisting of a host name, a port number, a realm name and an authentication scheme name which Credentials apply to.
AuthState	This class provides detailed information about the state of the authentication process.
BasicUserPrincipal	Basic user principal used for HTTP authentication
NTCredentials	Credentials implementation for Microsoft Windows platforms that includes Windows specific attributes such as name of the domain the user belongs to.
NTUserPrincipal	Microsoft Windows specific user principal implementation.
UsernamePasswordCredentials	Simple Credentials implementation based on a user name / password pair.

Exception Summary

AuthenticationException	Signals a failure in authentication process
InvalidCredentialsException	Authentication credentials required to respond to a authentication challenge are invalid
MalformedChallengeException	Signals that authentication challenge is in some way invalid or illegal in the given context

Package org.apache.http.auth Description

The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.