org.apache.juneau.http

Class WwwAuthenticate

java.lang.Object

org.apache.juneau.http.HeaderString

org.apache.juneau.http.WwwAuthenticate

public final class WwwAuthenticate
extends HeaderString

Represents a parsed WWW-Authenticate HTTP response header.

Indicates the authentication scheme that should be used to access the requested entity.

Example

WWW-Authenticate: Basic

RFC2616 Specification

The WWW-Authenticate response-header field MUST be included in 401 (Unauthorized) response messages. The field value consists of at least one challenge that indicates the authentication scheme(s) and parameters applicable to the Request-URI.

WWW-Authenticate = "WWW-Authenticate" ":" 1#challenge

The HTTP access authentication process is described in "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication". User agents are advised to take special care in parsing the WWW-Authenticate field value as it might contain more than one challenge, or if more than one WWW-Authenticate header field is provided, the contents of a challenge itself can contain a comma-separated list of authentication parameters.

See Also:

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static WwwAuthenticate	forString(String value) Returns a parsed WWW-Authenticate header.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.juneau.http.HeaderString

asString, eq, eqIC, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

forString

public static WwwAuthenticate forString(String value)

Returns a parsed WWW-Authenticate header.

Parameters:

value - The WWW-Authenticate header string.

Returns:

The parsed WWW-Authenticate header, or null if the string was null.