Package lumis.portal.authentication.http

Contains the infrastructure for authenticating http requests.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
IHttpAuthenticator	Defines the callback methods an http authenticator must provide for the Portal.

Class Summary

Class	Description
HttpAuthenticatorFactory	Provides IHttpAuthenticator instances.
HttpHandshakeAuthenticator	An abstract implementation of IHttpAuthenticator for making it easier to implement authenticators that require multiple http requests to complete the authentication.
SpnegoAuthenticator	HTTP authenticator implementation that uses SPNEGO/Kerberos for authenticating the user accessing the portal.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
ContinueOnNextRequestException	Exception that indicates that an authentication could not be completed yet, and will continue during the next request.

Package lumis.portal.authentication.http Description

Contains the infrastructure for authenticating http requests. This allows to customize how to authenticate an user based on the HttpServletRequest object. This also allows auto-login implementations to be done.

To implement a custom http authenticator, you must implement the interface IHttpAuthenticator and configure the lumisportalconfig.xml file for the Portal to use your implementation.

Since:

4.0.10

Version:

$Revision: 6376 $ $Date: 2007-04-10 20:55:53 +0000 (Tue, 10 Apr 2007) $

See Also:

IHttpAuthenticator, HttpHandshakeAuthenticator