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The BasicAuthentication.java Java example source code

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package sun.net.www.protocol.http;

import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.PasswordAuthentication;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Base64;
import sun.net.www.HeaderParser;

/**
 * BasicAuthentication: Encapsulate an http server authentication using
 * the "basic" scheme.
 *
 * @author Bill Foote
 */


class BasicAuthentication extends AuthenticationInfo {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 100L;

    /** The authentication string for this host, port, and realm.  This is
        a simple BASE64 encoding of "login:password".    */
    String auth;

    /**
     * Create a BasicAuthentication
     */
    public BasicAuthentication(boolean isProxy, String host, int port,
                               String realm, PasswordAuthentication pw) {
        super(isProxy ? PROXY_AUTHENTICATION : SERVER_AUTHENTICATION,
              AuthScheme.BASIC, host, port, realm);
        String plain = pw.getUserName() + ":";
        byte[] nameBytes = null;
        try {
            nameBytes = plain.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
        } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
            assert false;
        }

        // get password bytes
        char[] passwd = pw.getPassword();
        byte[] passwdBytes = new byte[passwd.length];
        for (int i=0; i<passwd.length; i++)
            passwdBytes[i] = (byte)passwd[i];

        // concatenate user name and password bytes and encode them
        byte[] concat = new byte[nameBytes.length + passwdBytes.length];
        System.arraycopy(nameBytes, 0, concat, 0, nameBytes.length);
        System.arraycopy(passwdBytes, 0, concat, nameBytes.length,
                         passwdBytes.length);
        this.auth = "Basic " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(concat);
        this.pw = pw;
    }

    /**
     * Create a BasicAuthentication
     */
    public BasicAuthentication(boolean isProxy, String host, int port,
                               String realm, String auth) {
        super(isProxy ? PROXY_AUTHENTICATION : SERVER_AUTHENTICATION,
              AuthScheme.BASIC, host, port, realm);
        this.auth = "Basic " + auth;
    }

    /**
     * Create a BasicAuthentication
     */
    public BasicAuthentication(boolean isProxy, URL url, String realm,
                                   PasswordAuthentication pw) {
        super(isProxy ? PROXY_AUTHENTICATION : SERVER_AUTHENTICATION,
              AuthScheme.BASIC, url, realm);
        String plain = pw.getUserName() + ":";
        byte[] nameBytes = null;
        try {
            nameBytes = plain.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
        } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
            assert false;
        }

        // get password bytes
        char[] passwd = pw.getPassword();
        byte[] passwdBytes = new byte[passwd.length];
        for (int i=0; i<passwd.length; i++)
            passwdBytes[i] = (byte)passwd[i];

        // concatenate user name and password bytes and encode them
        byte[] concat = new byte[nameBytes.length + passwdBytes.length];
        System.arraycopy(nameBytes, 0, concat, 0, nameBytes.length);
        System.arraycopy(passwdBytes, 0, concat, nameBytes.length,
                         passwdBytes.length);
        this.auth = "Basic " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(concat);
        this.pw = pw;
    }

    /**
     * Create a BasicAuthentication
     */
    public BasicAuthentication(boolean isProxy, URL url, String realm,
                                   String auth) {
        super(isProxy ? PROXY_AUTHENTICATION : SERVER_AUTHENTICATION,
              AuthScheme.BASIC, url, realm);
        this.auth = "Basic " + auth;
    }

    /**
     * @return true if this authentication supports preemptive authorization
     */
    @Override
    public boolean supportsPreemptiveAuthorization() {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Set header(s) on the given connection. This will only be called for
     * definitive (i.e. non-preemptive) authorization.
     * @param conn The connection to apply the header(s) to
     * @param p A source of header values for this connection, if needed.
     * @param raw The raw header values for this connection, if needed.
     * @return true if all goes well, false if no headers were set.
     */
    @Override
    public boolean setHeaders(HttpURLConnection conn, HeaderParser p, String raw) {
        conn.setAuthenticationProperty(getHeaderName(), getHeaderValue(null,null));
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * @return the value of the HTTP header this authentication wants set
     */
    @Override
    public String getHeaderValue(URL url, String method) {
        /* For Basic the authorization string does not depend on the request URL
         * or the request method
         */
        return auth;
    }

    /**
     * For Basic Authentication, the security parameters can never be stale.
     * In other words there is no possibility to reuse the credentials.
     * They are always either valid or invalid.
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isAuthorizationStale (String header) {
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * @return the common root path between npath and path.
     * This is used to detect when we have an authentication for two
     * paths and the root of th authentication space is the common root.
     */

    static String getRootPath(String npath, String opath) {
        int index = 0;
        int toindex;

        /* Must normalize so we don't get confused by ../ and ./ segments */
        try {
            npath = new URI (npath).normalize().getPath();
            opath = new URI (opath).normalize().getPath();
        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
            /* ignore error and use the old value */
        }

        while (index < opath.length()) {
            toindex = opath.indexOf('/', index+1);
            if (toindex != -1 && opath.regionMatches(0, npath, 0, toindex+1))
                index = toindex;
            else
                return opath.substring(0, index+1);
        }
        /*should not reach here. If we do simply return npath*/
        return npath;
    }
}