Package 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 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	Description
BasicCredentials(ByteChunk input, Charset charset)	Parse the HTTP Authorization header for BASIC authentication as per RFC 7617.

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

BasicCredentials

public BasicCredentials(ByteChunk input,
 Charset charset)
                 throws IllegalArgumentException

Parse the HTTP Authorization header for BASIC authentication as per RFC 7617.

Parameters:

input - The header value to parse in-place

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

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the header does not conform to RFC 7617

Method Details

getUsername

public String getUsername()

Trivial accessor.

Returns:

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

getPassword

public String getPassword()

Trivial accessor.

Returns:

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