AuthFilter

A filter that implements authentication. Currently this filter handles only Basic Authentication, as defined by the HTTP/1.1 specification.

Inherits

The AuthFilter class inerits from the following classes:

• Resource
• FramedResource
• ResourceFrame
• ResourceFilter

Attributes description

The AuthFilter defines the following attributes:

• methods
• realm
• shared-cachability
• private-cachability
• public-cachability

semantics

The set of methods to protect against. When undefined, the filter will protected all HTTP method, otherwise it will just protect against the given set of methods. Each method is given by its name (in upper case).

type

This attribute is an editable StringArrayAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to null.

semantics

The realm (a.k.a. database) to use to obtain user information. Jigsaw manages a catalog of realms, allowing you to define as many of them as needed. This attribute is a realm identifier, i.e it is the symbolic name under which the realm catalog knows about it. When undefined, the filter will not run any authentication code.

type

This attribute is an editable StringAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to null.

semantics

When this flag is set to true, the authentication filter will decorate replies on the way back, marking the reply as being cachable by proxies only if the proxy is willing to revalidate it.

type

This attribute is an editable BooleanAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to false.

semantics

When this flag is set to true, it overrides all other settings, and mark the reply on its way back as being cachable by any cache (a private or shared cache) prvided that cache revalidates it on each access.

type

This attribute is an editable BooleanAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to false.

semantics

When set to true, the filter will mark all outgoing replies it catches as being cachable, witouht even requiring revalidation.

type

This attribute is an editable BooleanAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to false.

Jigsaw Team
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