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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-21 11:44:51 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-21 11:44:51 +0000 |
commit | 9e3c08db40b8916968b9f30096c7be3f00ce9647 (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 1:115.7.0.upstream/1%115.7.0upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/netwerk/base/nsIAuthPrompt2.idl b/netwerk/base/nsIAuthPrompt2.idl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d94d50dfcc --- /dev/null +++ b/netwerk/base/nsIAuthPrompt2.idl @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ + +#include "nsISupports.idl" + +interface nsIAuthPromptCallback; +interface nsIChannel; +interface nsICancelable; +interface nsIAuthInformation; + +/** + * An interface allowing to prompt for a username and password. This interface + * is usually acquired using getInterface on notification callbacks or similar. + * It can be used to prompt users for authentication information, either + * synchronously or asynchronously. + */ +[scriptable, uuid(651395EB-8612-4876-8AC0-A88D4DCE9E1E)] +interface nsIAuthPrompt2 : nsISupports +{ + /** @name Security Levels */ + /* @{ */ + /** + * The password will be sent unencrypted. No security provided. + */ + const uint32_t LEVEL_NONE = 0; + /** + * Password will be sent encrypted, but the connection is otherwise + * insecure. + */ + const uint32_t LEVEL_PW_ENCRYPTED = 1; + /** + * The connection, both for password and data, is secure. + */ + const uint32_t LEVEL_SECURE = 2; + /* @} */ + + /** + * Requests a username and a password. Implementations will commonly show a + * dialog with a username and password field, depending on flags also a + * domain field. + * + * @param aChannel + * The channel that requires authentication. + * @param level + * One of the level constants from above. See there for descriptions + * of the levels. + * @param authInfo + * Authentication information object. The implementation should fill in + * this object with the information entered by the user before + * returning. + * + * @retval true + * Authentication can proceed using the values in the authInfo + * object. + * @retval false + * Authentication should be cancelled, usually because the user did + * not provide username/password. + * + * @note Exceptions thrown from this function will be treated like a + * return value of false. + * @deprecated use asyncPromptAuth + */ + boolean promptAuth(in nsIChannel aChannel, + in uint32_t level, + in nsIAuthInformation authInfo); + + /** + * Asynchronously prompt the user for a username and password. + * This has largely the same semantics as promptUsernameAndPassword(), + * but must return immediately after calling and return the entered + * data in a callback. + * + * If the user closes the dialog using a cancel button or similar, + * the callback's nsIAuthPromptCallback::onAuthCancelled method must be + * called. + * Calling nsICancelable::cancel on the returned object SHOULD close the + * dialog and MUST call nsIAuthPromptCallback::onAuthCancelled on the provided + * callback. + * + * This implementation may: + * + * 1) Coalesce identical prompts. This means prompts that are guaranteed to + * want the same auth information from the user. A single prompt will be + * shown; then the callbacks for all the coalesced prompts will be notified + * with the resulting auth information. + * 2) Serialize prompts that are all in the same "context" (this might mean + * application-wide, for a given window, or something else depending on + * the user interface) so that the user is not deluged with prompts. + * + * @throw + * This method may throw any exception when the prompt fails to queue e.g + * because of out-of-memory error. It must not throw when the prompt + * could already be potentially shown to the user. In that case information + * about the failure has to come through the callback. This way we + * prevent multiple dialogs shown to the user because consumer may fall + * back to synchronous prompt on synchronous failure of this method. + */ + nsICancelable asyncPromptAuth(in nsIChannel aChannel, + in nsIAuthPromptCallback aCallback, + in nsISupports aContext, + in uint32_t level, + in nsIAuthInformation authInfo); +}; |