Bug 22108

Summary: Common Authentication Framework
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Christophe Elek <celek>
Component: RuntimeAssignee: platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: jerome, klicnik, laurent, thatnitind
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 19258    

Description Christophe Elek CLA 2002-08-01 13:14:43 EDT 
We need to provide a comman URL authentication Mechanism without the WebDav Support
Right now, the first plugin to register a java.net.Authenticator will be called
for all plugins. 

We should provide an Eclipse way to register an Authenticator for a specific
site (realm ???) 
Other plugin should be able to 
1) set the Authentiction information using API from Platform
2) request to handle if the wuthentication for their site fails

We can also fail over to the next authenticator if a previous one for the same
site failed.
We should prevent malicious authenticator that send userid and password on the
net though ;-)
Comment 1 Laurent Fourrier CLA 2003-01-29 15:31:11 EST 
Having studied a little the question when I first worked on a correction of bug
19258, I think there should be only one authenticator. 
It can used Delegates, but there should be only one Authenticator, set as default.
(And I think that the platform should regularly ensure that the default
authenticator is the correct one.)
Now, for the Delegates, they should be able to register regexp about the
protocol, the hosts, ... and provide information when a match occurs.
If several matches occurs, we can try until one pass, or manage priorities, or...
If netaccess (or whatever the name of the correction of 19258) is to use the
authentication framework, this framework must be available very early in the
startup of the platform (as netaccess must be loaded before any plugin depending
on the fonctionnality).
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2004-08-26 11:55:56 EDT 
Not planning to add this to Eclipse.
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2006-06-27 15:12:13 EDT 
Reopening to mark as a duplicate
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2006-06-27 15:12:27 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148831 ***