netwerk/base/public/nsIAuthInformation.idl

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:21:57 +0100

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:21:57 +0100
branch
TOR_BUG_9701
changeset 15
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Incorporate requested changes from Mozilla in review:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123480#c6

     1 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
     2  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
     3  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
     5 #include "nsISupports.idl"
     7 /**
     8  * A object that hold authentication information. The caller of
     9  * nsIAuthPrompt2::promptUsernameAndPassword or
    10  * nsIAuthPrompt2::promptPasswordAsync provides an object implementing this
    11  * interface; the prompt implementation can then read the values here to prefill
    12  * the dialog. After the user entered the authentication information, it should
    13  * set the attributes of this object to indicate to the caller what was entered
    14  * by the user.
    15  */
    16 [scriptable, uuid(0d73639c-2a92-4518-9f92-28f71fea5f20)]
    17 interface nsIAuthInformation : nsISupports
    18 {
    19   /** @name Flags */
    20   /* @{ */
    21   /**
    22    * This dialog belongs to a network host.
    23    */
    24   const uint32_t AUTH_HOST = 1;
    26   /**
    27    * This dialog belongs to a proxy.
    28    */
    29   const uint32_t AUTH_PROXY = 2;
    31   /**
    32    * This dialog needs domain information. The user interface should show a
    33    * domain field, prefilled with the domain attribute's value.
    34    */
    35   const uint32_t NEED_DOMAIN = 4;
    37   /**
    38    * This dialog only asks for password information. Authentication prompts
    39    * SHOULD NOT show a username field. Attempts to change the username field
    40    * will have no effect. nsIAuthPrompt2 implementations should, however, show
    41    * its initial value to the user in some form. For example, a paragraph in
    42    * the dialog might say "Please enter your password for user jsmith at
    43    * server intranet".
    44    *
    45    * This flag is mutually exclusive with #NEED_DOMAIN.
    46    */
    47   const uint32_t ONLY_PASSWORD = 8;
    49   /**
    50    * We have already tried to log in for this channel
    51    * (with auth values from a previous promptAuth call),
    52    * but it failed, so we now ask the user to provide a new, correct login.
    53    *
    54    * @see also RFC 2616, Section 10.4.2
    55    */
    56   const uint32_t PREVIOUS_FAILED = 16;
    57   /* @} */
    59   /**
    60    * Flags describing this dialog. A bitwise OR of the flag values
    61    * above.
    62    *
    63    * It is possible that neither #AUTH_HOST nor #AUTH_PROXY are set.
    64    *
    65    * Auth prompts should ignore flags they don't understand; especially, they
    66    * should not throw an exception because of an unsupported flag.
    67    */
    68   readonly attribute unsigned long flags;
    70   /**
    71    * The server-supplied realm of the authentication as defined in RFC 2617.
    72    * Can be the empty string if the protocol does not support realms.
    73    * Otherwise, this is a human-readable string like "Secret files".
    74    */
    75   readonly attribute AString realm;
    77   /**
    78    * The authentication scheme used for this request, if applicable. If the
    79    * protocol for this authentication does not support schemes, this will be
    80    * the empty string. Otherwise, this will be a string such as "basic" or 
    81    * "digest". This string will always be in lowercase.
    82    */
    83   readonly attribute AUTF8String authenticationScheme;
    85   /**
    86    * The initial value should be used to prefill the dialog or be shown
    87    * in some other way to the user.
    88    * On return, this parameter should contain the username entered by
    89    * the user.
    90    * This field can only be changed if the #ONLY_PASSWORD flag is not set.
    91    */
    92   attribute AString username;
    94   /**
    95    * The initial value should be used to prefill the dialog or be shown
    96    * in some other way to the user.
    97    * The password should not be shown in clear.
    98    * On return, this parameter should contain the password entered by
    99    * the user.
   100    */
   101   attribute AString password;
   103   /**
   104    * The initial value should be used to prefill the dialog or be shown
   105    * in some other way to the user.
   106    * On return, this parameter should contain the domain entered by
   107    * the user.
   108    * This attribute is only used if flags include #NEED_DOMAIN.
   109    */
   110   attribute AString domain;
   111 };

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