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package org.apache.http.client;

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScheme;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthenticationException;
import org.apache.http.auth.MalformedChallengeException;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
/**
 * A handler for determining if an HTTP response represents an authentication
 * challenge that was sent back to the client as a result of authentication
 * failure.
 * 
 * Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared
 * data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed
 * from multiple threads.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 *
 * @deprecated (4.2)  use {@link AuthenticationStrategy}
 */
@Deprecated
public interface AuthenticationHandler {

    /**
     * Determines if the given HTTP response response represents
     * an authentication challenge that was sent back as a result
     * of authentication failure
     * @param response HTTP response.
     * @param context HTTP context.
     * @return {@code true} if user authentication is required,
     *   {@code false} otherwise.
     */
    boolean isAuthenticationRequested(
            HttpResponse response,
            HttpContext context);

    /**
     * Extracts from the given HTTP response a collection of authentication
     * challenges, each of which represents an authentication scheme supported
     * by the authentication host.
     *
     * @param response HTTP response.
     * @param context HTTP context.
     * @return a collection of challenges keyed by names of corresponding
     * authentication schemes.
     * @throws MalformedChallengeException if one of the authentication
     *  challenges is not valid or malformed.
     */
    Map getChallenges(
            HttpResponse response,
            HttpContext context) throws MalformedChallengeException;

    /**
     * Selects one authentication challenge out of all available and
     * creates and generates {@link AuthScheme} instance capable of
     * processing that challenge.
     * @param challenges collection of challenges.
     * @param response HTTP response.
     * @param context HTTP context.
     * @return authentication scheme to use for authentication.
     * @throws AuthenticationException if an authentication scheme
     *  could not be selected.
     */
    AuthScheme selectScheme(
            Map challenges,
            HttpResponse response,
            HttpContext context) throws AuthenticationException;

}