org.apache.nutch.protocol.httpclient
Class HttpBasicAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.nutch.protocol.httpclient.HttpBasicAuthentication

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, HttpAuthentication

public class HttpBasicAuthentication
extends Object
implements HttpAuthentication, Configurable

Implementation of RFC 2617 Basic Authentication. Usernames and passwords are stored in standard Nutch configuration files using the following properties: http.auth.basic..user http.auth.basic..pass

Author:

Matt Tencati

Field Summary

static org.slf4j.Logger

LOG

Constructor Summary

protected

HttpBasicAuthentication(String challenge, Configuration conf) Construct an HttpBasicAuthentication for the given challenge parameters.

Method Summary

static HttpBasicAuthentication	getAuthentication(String challenge, Configuration conf) This method is responsible for providing Basic authentication information.
static Pattern	getBasicPattern() Provides a pattern which can be used by an outside resource to determine if this class can provide credentials based on simple header information.
Configuration	getConf()
List	getCredentials() Gets the Basic credentials generated by this HttpBasicAuthentication object
String	getRealm() Gets the realm attribute of the HttpBasicAuthentication object.
void	setConf(Configuration conf)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

LOG

public static final org.slf4j.Logger LOG

Constructor Detail

HttpBasicAuthentication

protected HttpBasicAuthentication(String challenge,
                                  Configuration conf)
                           throws HttpAuthenticationException

Construct an HttpBasicAuthentication for the given challenge parameters. The challenge parameters are returned by the web server using a WWW-Authenticate header. This will typically be represented by single line of the form WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="myrealm"

Parameters:

challenge - WWW-Authenticate header from web server

Throws:

HttpAuthenticationException

Method Detail

setConf

public void setConf(Configuration conf)

Specified by:

setConf in interface Configurable

getConf

public Configuration getConf()

Specified by:

getConf in interface Configurable

getCredentials

public List getCredentials()

Gets the Basic credentials generated by this HttpBasicAuthentication object

Specified by:

getCredentials in interface HttpAuthentication

Returns:

Credentials in the form of Authorization: Basic <Base64 encoded userid:password>

getRealm

public String getRealm()

Gets the realm attribute of the HttpBasicAuthentication object. This should have been supplied to the getAuthentication(String, Configuration) static method

Specified by:

getRealm in interface HttpAuthentication

Returns:

The realm

getAuthentication

public static HttpBasicAuthentication getAuthentication(String challenge,
                                                        Configuration conf)

This method is responsible for providing Basic authentication information. The method caches authentication information for each realm so that the required authentication information does not need to be regenerated for every request.

Parameters:

challenge - The challenge string provided by the webserver. This is the text which follows the WWW-Authenticate header, including the Basic tag.

Returns:

An HttpBasicAuthentication object or null if unable to generate appropriate credentials.

getBasicPattern

public static final Pattern getBasicPattern()

Provides a pattern which can be used by an outside resource to determine if this class can provide credentials based on simple header information. It does not calculate any information regarding realms or challenges.

Returns:

Returns a Pattern which will match a Basic WWW-Authenticate header.