org.apache.cactus.client.authentication

Interface Authentication

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAuthentication, BasicAuthentication, FormAuthentication

public interface Authentication

Interface for different authentication modules. An authentication class is invoked on the client side to perform the actual authentication, for example by modifying the request to includes credentials.

Since:

1.5

Version:

$Id: Authentication.java 238991 2004-05-22 11:34:50Z vmassol $

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	configure(org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpState theState, org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod theMethod, WebRequest theRequest, Configuration theConfiguration) Modifies the request so that it will carry authentication information.

Method Detail

configure

void configure(org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpState theState,
             org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod theMethod,
             WebRequest theRequest,
             Configuration theConfiguration)

Modifies the request so that it will carry authentication information.

Parameters:

theState - The HttpClient state object that can be used to ask HttpClient to set up authentication

theMethod - the HttpClient HTTP method that will be used to connect to the server side

theRequest - The request object that will be sent to the Cactus Redirector over HTTP

theConfiguration - The Cactus configuration so that authentication methods can get access to Cactus configuration properties