org.apache.jcs.utils.servlet
Class BasicHttpAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.jcs.utils.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticator

public class BasicHttpAuthenticator
extends java.lang.Object

Used to perform basic http authentication.

Constructor Summary

BasicHttpAuthenticator(java.lang.String jcs)

Method Summary

boolean	authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res) Authenticates the http "Authorization" header information.
protected boolean	checkPassword(java.lang.String userid, java.lang.String password) Default implementation of checking the password.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BasicHttpAuthenticator

public BasicHttpAuthenticator(java.lang.String jcs)

Parameters:

jcs - the jcs parameter used to specify the "WWW-Authenticate" http response header.

Method Detail

authenticate

public final boolean authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req,
                                  javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res)

Authenticates the http "Authorization" header information.

Parameters:

req -

res -

Returns:

boolean

checkPassword

protected boolean checkPassword(java.lang.String userid,
                                java.lang.String password)

Default implementation of checking the password.

Parameters:

userid -

password -

Returns:

true iff the given user id and password is valid.