org.springframework.http
Class HttpAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.http.HttpAuthentication

Direct Known Subclasses:

HttpBasicAuthentication

public abstract class HttpAuthentication
extends java.lang.Object

Represents an abstract HTTP Authentication. Possible subclasses include representations of HTTP Basic Authentication and HTTP Digest Authentication.

Author:

Jonathan Sweemer, Roy Clarkson

See Also:

RFC2617

Constructor Summary

HttpAuthentication()

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.String

getHeaderValue()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HttpAuthentication

public HttpAuthentication()

Method Detail

getHeaderValue

public abstract java.lang.String getHeaderValue()

Returns:

the value for the 'Authorization' HTTP header.