Class AuthChallengeProcessor

public AuthChallengeProcessor(HttpParams params)

Creates an authentication challenge processor with the given HTTP parameters

Parameters:

params - the HTTP parameters used by this processor

public AuthScheme processChallenge(AuthState state,
                                   Map challenges)
            throws MalformedChallengeException,
                   AuthenticationException

Processes the given collection of challenges and updates the state of the authentication process.

Parameters:

challenges - the collection of authentication challenges

Returns:

the authentication scheme used to process the challenge

public AuthScheme selectAuthScheme(Map challenges)
            throws AuthChallengeException

Determines the preferred authentication scheme that can be used to respond to the given collection of challenges.

Parameters:

challenges - the collection of authentication challenges

Returns:

the preferred authentication scheme

Throws:

AuthChallengeException - if the preferred authentication scheme cannot be determined or is not supported