Interface AuthenticationStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:
DefaultAuthenticationStrategy

@Contract(threading=STATELESS) public interface AuthenticationStrategy
Strategy to select auth schemes in order of preference based on auth challenges presented by the opposite endpoint (target server or a proxy).

Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed from multiple threads.

Since:
4.2
  • Method Details

    • select

      List<AuthScheme> select(ChallengeType challengeType, Map<String,AuthChallenge> challenges, org.apache.hc.core5.http.protocol.HttpContext context)
      Returns an list of AuthSchemes to handle the given AuthChallenges in their order of preference.
      Parameters:
      challengeType - challenge type.
      challenges - map of challenges keyed by lowercase auth scheme names.
      context - HTTP context.
      Returns:
      authentication auth schemes that can be used for authentication. Can be empty.
      Since:
      5.0