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Added in API level 1

package

org.apache.http.auth

The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server, commonly referred to as HttpAuth .

Interfaces

AuthScheme	This interface represents an abstract challenge-response oriented authentication scheme.
AuthSchemeFactory
Credentials	User name and password based authentication credentials.

Classes

AUTH	Constants and static helpers related to the HTTP authentication.
AuthSchemeRegistry	Authentication scheme registry that can be used to obtain the corresponding authentication scheme implementation for a given type of authorization challenge.
AuthScope	The class represents an authentication scope consisting of a host name, a port number, a realm name and an authentication scheme name which `Credentials` apply to.
AuthState	This class provides detailed information about the state of the authentication process.
BasicUserPrincipal	Basic user principal used for HTTP authentication
NTCredentials	`Credentials` specific to the Windows platform.
NTUserPrincipal	NT (MS Windows specific) user principal used for HTTP authentication
UsernamePasswordCredentials	Username and password `Credentials`

Exceptions

AuthenticationException	Signals a failure in authentication process
InvalidCredentialsException	Authentication credentials required to respond to a authentication challenge are invalid
MalformedChallengeException	Signals that authentication challenge is in some way invalid or illegal in the given context