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/*
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 * $Date: 2006-11-29 06:56:49 +0100 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006) $
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthPolicy;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScheme;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthenticationException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.MalformedChallengeException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.DefaultHttpParams;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpParams;

/**
 * A simple custom AuthScheme example.  The included auth scheme is meant 
 * for demonstration purposes only.  It does not actually implement a usable
 * authentication method.
 */
public class CustomAuthenticationExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // register the auth scheme
        AuthPolicy.registerAuthScheme(SecretAuthScheme.NAME, SecretAuthScheme.class);

        // include the scheme in the AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY preference,
        // this can be done on a per-client or per-method basis but we'll do it
        // globally for this example
        HttpParams params = DefaultHttpParams.getDefaultParams();
        ArrayList schemes = new ArrayList();
        schemes.add(SecretAuthScheme.NAME);
        schemes.addAll((Collection) params.getParameter(AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY));
        params.setParameter(AuthPolicy.AUTH_SCHEME_PRIORITY, schemes);

        // now that our scheme has been registered we can execute methods against
        // servers that require "Secret" authentication... 
    }

    /**
     * A custom auth scheme that just uses "Open Sesame" as the authentication
     * string.
     */
    private class SecretAuthScheme implements AuthScheme {

        public static final String NAME = "Secret";

        public SecretAuthScheme() {
            // All auth schemes must have a no arg constructor.
        }

        public String authenticate(Credentials credentials, HttpMethod method) throws AuthenticationException {
            return "Open Sesame";
        }

        public String authenticate(Credentials credentials, String method, String uri)
                throws AuthenticationException {
            return "Open Sesame";
        }

        public String getID() {
            return NAME;
        }

        public String getParameter(String name) {
            // this scheme does not use parameters, see RFC2617Scheme for an example
            return null;
        }

        public String getRealm() {
            // this scheme does not use realms
            return null;
        }

        public String getSchemeName() {
            return NAME;
        }

        public boolean isConnectionBased() {
            return false;
        }

        public void processChallenge(String challenge) throws MalformedChallengeException {
            // Nothing to do here, this is not a challenge based
            // auth scheme.  See NTLMScheme for a good example.
        }

        public boolean isComplete() {
            // again we're not a challenge based scheme so this is always true
            return true;
        }
    }
}