Package Documentation for org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth
Provides implementation of various authentication schemes as well as
utility classes that can be used to authenticate HTTP requests.
@since 2.0
The class represents an authentication scope consisting of a host name,
a port number, a realm name and an authentication scheme name which
org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials apply to.
Credentials provider interface can be used to provide
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod HTTP method with a means to request
authentication credentials if no credentials have been given or given
credentials are incorrect.
HttpClient makes no provisions to check whether the same credentials have
been tried already.
Abstract authentication scheme class that lays foundation for all
RFC 2617 compliant authetication schemes and provides capabilities common
to all authentication schemes defined in RFC 2617.