Module jdk.httpserver

Package com.sun.net.httpserver

Class BasicAuthenticator

java.lang.Object

com.sun.net.httpserver.Authenticator

com.sun.net.httpserver.BasicAuthenticator

public abstract class BasicAuthenticator
extends Authenticator

BasicAuthenticator provides an implementation of HTTP Basic authentication. It is an abstract class and must be extended to provide an implementation of checkCredentials(String,String) which is called to verify each incoming request.

Since:

1.6

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces declared in class com.sun.net.httpserver.Authenticator

Authenticator.Failure, Authenticator.Result, Authenticator.Retry, Authenticator.Success

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected final String	realm	The HTTP Basic authentication realm.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
BasicAuthenticator(String realm)	Creates a BasicAuthenticator for the given HTTP realm.
BasicAuthenticator(String realm, Charset charset)	Creates a BasicAuthenticator for the given HTTP realm and using the given Charset to decode the Basic authentication credentials (username and password).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Authenticator.Result	authenticate(HttpExchange t)	Called to authenticate each incoming request.
abstract boolean	checkCredentials(String username, String password)	Called for each incoming request to verify the given name and password in the context of this authenticator's realm.
String	getRealm()	Returns the realm this BasicAuthenticator was created with.

Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

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

Field Details

realm

protected final String realm

The HTTP Basic authentication realm.

Constructor Details

BasicAuthenticator

public BasicAuthenticator(String realm)

Creates a BasicAuthenticator for the given HTTP realm. The Basic authentication credentials (username and password) are decoded using the platform's default character set.

API Note:

The value of the realm parameter will be embedded in a quoted string.

Parameters:

realm - the HTTP Basic authentication realm

Throws:

NullPointerException - if realm is null

IllegalArgumentException - if realm is an empty string or is not correctly quoted, as specified in RFC 7230 section-3.2. Note, any \ character used for quoting must itself be quoted in source code.

BasicAuthenticator

public BasicAuthenticator(String realm,
 Charset charset)

Creates a BasicAuthenticator for the given HTTP realm and using the given Charset to decode the Basic authentication credentials (username and password).

API Note:

UTF-8 is the recommended charset because its usage is communicated to the client, and therefore more likely to be used also by the client.

The value of the realm parameter will be embedded in a quoted string.

Parameters:

realm - the HTTP Basic authentication realm

charset - the Charset to decode incoming credentials from the client

Throws:

NullPointerException - if realm or charset are null

IllegalArgumentException - if realm is an empty string or is not correctly quoted, as specified in RFC 7230 section-3.2. Note, any \ character used for quoting must itself be quoted in source code.

Method Details

getRealm

public String getRealm()

Returns the realm this BasicAuthenticator was created with.

Returns:

the authenticator's realm string

authenticate

public Authenticator.Result authenticate(HttpExchange t)

Description copied from class: Authenticator

Called to authenticate each incoming request. The implementation must return a Authenticator.Failure, Authenticator.Success or Authenticator.Retry object as appropriate:

• Failure means the authentication has completed, but has failed due to invalid credentials.
• Success means that the authentication has succeeded, and a Principal object representing the user can be retrieved by calling Authenticator.Success.getPrincipal().
• Retry means that another HTTP exchange is required. Any response headers needing to be sent back to the client are set in the given HttpExchange. The response code to be returned must be provided in the Retry object. Retry may occur multiple times.

Specified by:

authenticate in class Authenticator

Parameters:

t - the HttpExchange upon which authenticate is called

Returns:

the result

checkCredentials

public abstract boolean checkCredentials(String username,
 String password)

Called for each incoming request to verify the given name and password in the context of this authenticator's realm. Any caching of credentials must be done by the implementation of this method.

Parameters:

username - the username from the request

password - the password from the request

Returns:

true if the credentials are valid, false otherwise