ml.alternet.security.web.server

Interface PasswordFieldMatcher

public interface PasswordFieldMatcher

According to the Web application configuration, determine whether an incoming HTTP request contains passwords to capture.

A typical matcher will check whether the URI request will match some given paths.

Author:

Philippe Poulard

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AuthenticationMethod	getAuthenticationMethod(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request) Indicates whether HTTP Basic | Form authentication has to be processed for a given request.
Optional<List<String>>	matches(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Check whether an HTTP request matches this matcher, and return the list of passwords fields that have to be captured in a request.

Method Detail

matches

Optional<List<String>> matches(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Check whether an HTTP request matches this matcher, and return the list of passwords fields that have to be captured in a request.

Parameters:

request - The HTTP request.

Returns:

If the request matches the configuration, return the list of field names.

getAuthenticationMethod

AuthenticationMethod getAuthenticationMethod(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request)

Indicates whether HTTP Basic | Form authentication has to be processed for a given request.

Parameters:

request - The HTTP request.

Returns:

The authentication method.