nsIHttpAuthenticableChannel

Methods

cancel(aStatus)

Cancels the current request. See nsIRequest.

setProxyCredentials(credentials)

Sets the Proxy-Authorization request header. An empty string
will clear it.

setWWWCredentials(credentials)

Sets the Authorization request header. An empty string
will clear it.

onAuthAvailable()

Called when authentication information is ready and has been set on this
object using setWWWCredentials/setProxyCredentials. Implementations can
continue with the request and send the given information to the server.

It is called asynchronously from
nsIHttpChannelAuthProvider::processAuthentication if that method returns
NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS.

@note Any exceptions thrown from this method should be ignored.

onAuthCancelled(userCancel)

Notifies that the prompt was cancelled. It is called asynchronously
from nsIHttpChannelAuthProvider::processAuthentication if that method
returns NS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS.

Parameters

Attributes

isSSL

If the channel being authenticated is using SSL.

proxyMethodIsConnect

Returns if the proxy HTTP method used is CONNECT. If no proxy is being
used it must return PR_FALSE.

loadFlags

The load flags of this request. See nsIRequest.

URI

The URI corresponding to the channel. See nsIChannel.

loadGroup

The load group of this request. It is here for querying its
notificationCallbacks. See nsIRequest.

notificationCallbacks

The notification callbacks for the channel. See nsIChannel.

requestMethod

The HTTP request method. See nsIHttpChannel.

serverResponseHeader

The “Server” response header.
Return NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if not available.

proxyChallenges

The Proxy-Authenticate response header.

WWWChallenges

The WWW-Authenticate response header.