org.webbitserver.handler.authentication
Class BasicAuthenticationHandler

java.lang.Object
  org.webbitserver.handler.authentication.BasicAuthenticationHandler

All Implemented Interfaces:

HttpHandler

public class BasicAuthenticationHandler
extends Object
implements HttpHandler

Adds HTTP Basic authentication to a page. Users should provide an implementation of UsernamePasswordAuthenticator to check the supplied credentials.

See samples.authentication.SimplePasswordsExample in the src/tests directory for a really basic usage. To implement a custom authenticator that performs background IO, see samples.authentication.AsyncPasswordsExample.

See Also:

PasswordAuthenticator, InMemoryPasswords

Field Summary

static String

USERNAME

Constructor Summary

BasicAuthenticationHandler(PasswordAuthenticator authenticator)

BasicAuthenticationHandler(PasswordAuthenticator authenticator, String realm)

Method Summary

void	handleHttpRequest(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, HttpControl control)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

USERNAME

public static final String USERNAME

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

BasicAuthenticationHandler

public BasicAuthenticationHandler(PasswordAuthenticator authenticator)

BasicAuthenticationHandler

public BasicAuthenticationHandler(PasswordAuthenticator authenticator,
                                  String realm)

Method Detail

handleHttpRequest

public void handleHttpRequest(HttpRequest request,
                              HttpResponse response,
                              HttpControl control)
                       throws Exception

Specified by:

handleHttpRequest in interface HttpHandler

Throws:

Exception