org.torweg.pulse.webdav.util
Class BasicAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  org.torweg.pulse.webdav.util.BasicAuthentication

public final class BasicAuthentication
extends java.lang.Object

a simple implementation of the HTTP-Basic-Authentication.

Contains a backslash fix for Microsoft Clients: If the user name contains a backslash (which is an illegal character in pulse user names), we are confronted with a Windows Web Folder client. The user name will then be extracted after the last backslash.

Version:

$Revision: 1435 $

Author:

Thomas Weber

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_HEADER the authorization required header.
static java.lang.String	HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_TYPE_BASIC the authentication type.

Method Summary

static User

authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) performs the HTTP Basic Authentication against the pulse user database.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_HEADER

public static final java.lang.String HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_HEADER

the authorization required header.

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Constant Field Values

HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_TYPE_BASIC

public static final java.lang.String HTTP_AUTHENTICATION_TYPE_BASIC

the authentication type.

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

authenticate

public static User authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                                javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

performs the HTTP Basic Authentication against the pulse user database.

Parameters:

request - the request

response - the response

Returns:

the authenticated User or null, if no User could be authenticated