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(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.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(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, DefaultLoginCredentials creds) Extracts the credentials from the given HttpServletRequest and populate the DefaultLoginCredentials with them.
boolean	postAuthentication(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Performs any post-authentication logic regarding of the authentication result.

Method Detail

extractCredential

void extractCredential(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                     DefaultLoginCredentials creds)

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

Parameters:

request -

creds -

challengeClient

void challengeClient(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                   javax.servlet.http.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(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                         javax.servlet.http.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