/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ #include "nsISupports.idl" interface nsIHttpAuthenticableChannel; /** * nsIHttpAuthenticator * * Interface designed to allow for pluggable HTTP authentication modules. * Implementations are registered under the ContractID: * * "@mozilla.org/network/http-authenticator;1?scheme=" * * where is the lower-cased value of the authentication scheme * found in the server challenge per the rules of RFC 2617. */ [scriptable, uuid(16784db0-fcb1-4352-b0c9-6a3a67e3cf79)] interface nsIHttpAuthenticator : nsISupports { /** * Upon receipt of a server challenge, this function is called to determine * whether or not the current user identity has been rejected. If true, * then the user will be prompted by the channel to enter (or revise) their * identity. Following this, generateCredentials will be called. * * If the IDENTITY_IGNORED auth flag is set, then the aInvalidateIdentity * return value will be ignored, and user prompting will be suppressed. * * @param aChannel * the http channel that received the challenge. * @param aChallenge * the challenge from the WWW-Authenticate/Proxy-Authenticate * server response header. (possibly from the auth cache.) * @param aProxyAuth * flag indicating whether or not aChallenge is from a proxy. * @param aSessionState * see description below for generateCredentials. * @param aContinuationState * see description below for generateCredentials. * @param aInvalidateIdentity * return value indicating whether or not to prompt the user for a * revised identity. */ void challengeReceived(in nsIHttpAuthenticableChannel aChannel, in string aChallenge, in boolean aProxyAuth, inout nsISupports aSessionState, inout nsISupports aContinuationState, out boolean aInvalidatesIdentity); /** * Called to generate the authentication credentials for a particular * server/proxy challenge. This is the value that will be sent back * to the server via an Authorization/Proxy-Authorization header. * * This function may be called using a cached challenge provided the * authenticator sets the REUSABLE_CHALLENGE flag. * * @param aChannel * the http channel requesting credentials * @param aChallenge * the challenge from the WWW-Authenticate/Proxy-Authenticate * server response header. (possibly from the auth cache.) * @param aProxyAuth * flag indicating whether or not aChallenge is from a proxy. * @param aDomain * string containing the domain name (if appropriate) * @param aUser * string containing the user name * @param aPassword * string containing the password * @param aSessionState * state stored along side the user's identity in the auth cache * for the lifetime of the browser session. if a new auth cache * entry is created for this challenge, then this parameter will * be null. on return, the result will be stored in the new auth * cache entry. this parameter is non-null when an auth cache entry * is being reused. * @param aContinuationState * state held by the channel between consecutive calls to * generateCredentials, assuming multiple calls are required * to authenticate. this state is held for at most the lifetime of * the channel. * @param aFlags * authenticator may return one of the generate flags bellow. */ string generateCredentials(in nsIHttpAuthenticableChannel aChannel, in string aChallenge, in boolean aProxyAuth, in wstring aDomain, in wstring aUser, in wstring aPassword, inout nsISupports aSessionState, inout nsISupports aContinuationState, out unsigned long aFlags); /** * Generate flags */ /** * Indicates that the authenticator has used an out-of-band or internal * source of identity and tells the consumer that it must not cache * the returned identity because it might not be valid and would overwrite * the cached identity. See bug 542318 comment 32. */ const unsigned long USING_INTERNAL_IDENTITY = (1<<0); /** * Flags defining various properties of the authenticator. */ readonly attribute unsigned long authFlags; /** * A request based authentication scheme only authenticates an individual * request (or a set of requests under the same authentication domain as * defined by RFC 2617). BASIC and DIGEST are request based authentication * schemes. */ const unsigned long REQUEST_BASED = (1<<0); /** * A connection based authentication scheme authenticates an individual * connection. Multiple requests may be issued over the connection without * repeating the authentication steps. Connection based authentication * schemes can associate state with the connection being authenticated via * the aContinuationState parameter (see generateCredentials). */ const unsigned long CONNECTION_BASED = (1<<1); /** * The credentials returned from generateCredentials may be reused with any * other URLs within "the protection space" as defined by RFC 2617 section * 1.2. If this flag is not set, then generateCredentials must be called * for each request within the protection space. REUSABLE_CREDENTIALS * implies REUSABLE_CHALLENGE. */ const unsigned long REUSABLE_CREDENTIALS = (1<<2); /** * A challenge may be reused to later generate credentials in anticipation * of a duplicate server challenge for URLs within "the protection space" * as defined by RFC 2617 section 1.2. */ const unsigned long REUSABLE_CHALLENGE = (1<<3); /** * This flag indicates that the identity of the user is not required by * this authentication scheme. */ const unsigned long IDENTITY_IGNORED = (1<<10); /** * This flag indicates that the identity of the user includes a domain * attribute that the user must supply. */ const unsigned long IDENTITY_INCLUDES_DOMAIN = (1<<11); /** * This flag indicates that the identity will be sent encrypted. It does * not make sense to combine this flag with IDENTITY_IGNORED. */ const unsigned long IDENTITY_ENCRYPTED = (1<<12); }; %{C++ #define NS_HTTP_AUTHENTICATOR_CONTRACTID_PREFIX \ "@mozilla.org/network/http-authenticator;1?scheme=" %}