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public interface: CredentialsProvider [javadoc | source]

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Credentials provider interface can be used to provide 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. It is a responsibility of the custom credentials provider to keep track of authentication attempts and to ensure that credentials known to be invalid are not retried. HttpClient will simply store the set of credentials returned by the custom credentials provider in the http state object and will attempt to use these credentials for all subsequent requests with the given authentication scope.

Classes implementing this interface must synchronize access to shared data as methods of this interfrace may be executed from multiple threads

Field Summary
public static final  String PROVIDER    Sets the credentials provider parameter.

This parameter expects a value of type CredentialsProvider .

 
Method from org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.CredentialsProvider Summary:
getCredentials
Method from org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.CredentialsProvider Detail:
 public Credentials getCredentials(AuthScheme scheme,
    String host,
    int port,
    boolean proxy) throws CredentialsNotAvailableException