org.picketlink.authentication.web

Interface HTTPAuthenticationScheme

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicAuthenticationScheme, ClientCertAuthenticationScheme, DigestAuthenticationScheme, FormAuthenticationScheme

public interface HTTPAuthenticationScheme

Defines the methods that should be implemented by classes that provide implementations for the HTTP Authentication Schemes such as BASIC, FORM, DIGEST and CLIENT-CERT.

Author:

Pedro Silva

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	challengeClient(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) Challenges the client if no credentials were supplied or the credentials were not extracted in order to continue with the authentication.
void	extractCredential(HttpServletRequest request, DefaultLoginCredentials creds) Extracts the credentials from the given HttpServletRequest and populate the DefaultLoginCredentials with them.
boolean	postAuthentication(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) Performs any post-authentication logic regarding of the authentication result.

Method Detail

extractCredential

void extractCredential(HttpServletRequest request,
                     DefaultLoginCredentials creds)

Extracts the credentials from the given HttpServletRequest and populate the DefaultLoginCredentials with them.

Parameters:

request -

creds -

challengeClient

void challengeClient(HttpServletRequest request,
                   HttpServletResponse response)
                     throws IOException

Challenges the client if no credentials were supplied or the credentials were not extracted in order to continue with the authentication.

Parameters:

request -

response -

Throws:

IOException

postAuthentication

boolean postAuthentication(HttpServletRequest request,
                         HttpServletResponse response)
                           throws IOException

Performs any post-authentication logic regarding of the authentication result.

Parameters:

request -

response -

Returns:

true if the processing should continue, false if the processing should stop.

Throws:

IOException