org.apache.catalina.authenticator

Class BasicAuthenticator.BasicCredentials

java.lang.Object

org.apache.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator.BasicCredentials

Enclosing class:

BasicAuthenticator

public static class BasicAuthenticator.BasicCredentials
extends java.lang.Object

Parser for an HTTP Authorization header for BASIC authentication as per RFC 2617 section 2, and the Base64 encoded credentials as per RFC 2045 section 6.8.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BasicCredentials(ByteChunk input, java.nio.charset.Charset charset) Deprecated. Unused. Will be removed in Tomcat 10. Use 3-arg constructor
BasicCredentials(ByteChunk input, java.nio.charset.Charset charset, boolean trimCredentials) Parse the HTTP Authorization header for BASIC authentication as per RFC 2617 section 2, and the Base64 encoded credentials as per RFC 2045 section 6.8.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getPassword() Trivial accessor.
java.lang.String	getUsername() Trivial accessor.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BasicCredentials

@Deprecated
public BasicCredentials(ByteChunk input,
                                    java.nio.charset.Charset charset)
                             throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Deprecated. Unused. Will be removed in Tomcat 10. Use 3-arg constructor

Parse the HTTP Authorization header for BASIC authentication as per RFC 2617 section 2, and the Base64 encoded credentials as per RFC 2045 section 6.8.

Parameters:

input - The header value to parse in-place

charset - The character set to use to convert the bytes to a string

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the header does not conform to RFC 2617

BasicCredentials

public BasicCredentials(ByteChunk input,
                        java.nio.charset.Charset charset,
                        boolean trimCredentials)
                 throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Parse the HTTP Authorization header for BASIC authentication as per RFC 2617 section 2, and the Base64 encoded credentials as per RFC 2045 section 6.8.

Parameters:

input - The header value to parse in-place

charset - The character set to use to convert the bytes to a string

trimCredentials - Should leading and trailing whitespace be removed from the parsed credentials

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the header does not conform to RFC 2617

Method Detail

getUsername

public java.lang.String getUsername()

Trivial accessor.

Returns:

the decoded username token as a String, which is never be null, but can be empty.

getPassword

public java.lang.String getPassword()

Trivial accessor.

Returns:

the decoded password token as a String, or null if no password was found in the credentials.