Package org.apache.http.auth

Client HTTP authentication APIs.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AuthScheme	This interface represents an abstract challenge-response oriented authentication scheme.
AuthSchemeFactory	Deprecated. (4.3) use AuthSchemeProvider
AuthSchemeProvider	Factory for AuthScheme implementations.
ContextAwareAuthScheme	This interface represents an extended authentication scheme that requires access to HttpContext in order to generate an authorization string.
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

Class	Description
AUTH	Constants and static helpers related to the HTTP authentication.
AuthOption
AuthSchemeRegistry	Deprecated. (4.3) use Registry
AuthScope	AuthScope represents an authentication scope consisting of a host name, a port number, a realm name and an authentication scheme name.
AuthState	This class provides detailed information about the state of the authentication process.
BasicUserPrincipal	Basic user principal used for HTTP authentication
KerberosCredentials	Credentials implementation based on GSSCredential for Kerberos 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.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
AuthProtocolState
ChallengeState	Challenge mode (TARGET or PROXY)

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
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