HTTPClient
Class SimpleAuthPrompt

java.lang.Object
  HTTPClient.SimpleAuthPrompt

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthorizationPrompter

class SimpleAuthPrompt

extends Object

implements AuthorizationPrompter

This class implements a simple command line prompter that request username and password used for the "basic" and "digest" authentication schemes.

Constructor Summary

(package private)

SimpleAuthPrompt()

Method Summary

(package private) static boolean	canUseCLPrompt()
NVPair	getUsernamePassword(AuthorizationInfo challenge, boolean forProxy) the method called by DefaultAuthHandler.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SimpleAuthPrompt

SimpleAuthPrompt()

Method Detail

getUsernamePassword

public NVPair getUsernamePassword(AuthorizationInfo challenge,
                                  boolean forProxy)

the method called by DefaultAuthHandler.

Specified by:

getUsernamePassword in interface AuthorizationPrompter

Parameters:

challenge - the parsed challenge from the server; the host, port, scheme, realm and params are set to the values given by the server in the challenge.

forProxy - true if the info is for a proxy (i.e. this is part of handling a 407 response); false otherwise (i.e. the response code was 401).

Returns:

the username/password pair

canUseCLPrompt

static boolean canUseCLPrompt()

Returns:

true for Unix's and VMS