Class AuthPolicy


  • public abstract class AuthPolicy
    extends Object
    Authentication policy class. The Authentication policy provides corresponding authentication scheme interfrace for a given type of authorization challenge.

    The following specifications are provided:

    • Basic: Basic authentication scheme as defined in RFC2617 (considered inherently insecure, but most widely supported)
    • Digest: Digest authentication scheme as defined in RFC2617
    • NTLM: The NTLM scheme is a proprietary Microsoft Windows Authentication protocol (considered to be the most secure among currently supported authentication schemes)
    Since:
    3.0
    Version:
    $Revision: 480424 $
    Author:
    Oleg Kalnichevski