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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 17:32:43 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 17:32:43 +0000
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+/* 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"
+
+/**
+ * A object that hold authentication information. The caller of
+ * nsIAuthPrompt2::promptUsernameAndPassword or
+ * nsIAuthPrompt2::promptPasswordAsync provides an object implementing this
+ * interface; the prompt implementation can then read the values here to prefill
+ * the dialog. After the user entered the authentication information, it should
+ * set the attributes of this object to indicate to the caller what was entered
+ * by the user.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(0d73639c-2a92-4518-9f92-28f71fea5f20)]
+interface nsIAuthInformation : nsISupports
+{
+ /** @name Flags */
+ /* @{ */
+ /**
+ * This dialog belongs to a network host.
+ */
+ const uint32_t AUTH_HOST = 1;
+
+ /**
+ * This dialog belongs to a proxy.
+ */
+ const uint32_t AUTH_PROXY = 2;
+
+ /**
+ * This dialog needs domain information. The user interface should show a
+ * domain field, prefilled with the domain attribute's value.
+ */
+ const uint32_t NEED_DOMAIN = 4;
+
+ /**
+ * This dialog only asks for password information. Authentication prompts
+ * SHOULD NOT show a username field. Attempts to change the username field
+ * will have no effect. nsIAuthPrompt2 implementations should, however, show
+ * its initial value to the user in some form. For example, a paragraph in
+ * the dialog might say "Please enter your password for user jsmith at
+ * server intranet".
+ *
+ * This flag is mutually exclusive with #NEED_DOMAIN.
+ */
+ const uint32_t ONLY_PASSWORD = 8;
+
+ /**
+ * We have already tried to log in for this channel
+ * (with auth values from a previous promptAuth call),
+ * but it failed, so we now ask the user to provide a new, correct login.
+ *
+ * @see also RFC 2616, Section 10.4.2
+ */
+ const uint32_t PREVIOUS_FAILED = 16;
+
+ /**
+ * A cross-origin sub-resource requests an authentication.
+ * The message presented to users must reflect that.
+ */
+ const uint32_t CROSS_ORIGIN_SUB_RESOURCE = 32;
+ /* @} */
+
+ /**
+ * Flags describing this dialog. A bitwise OR of the flag values
+ * above.
+ *
+ * It is possible that neither #AUTH_HOST nor #AUTH_PROXY are set.
+ *
+ * Auth prompts should ignore flags they don't understand; especially, they
+ * should not throw an exception because of an unsupported flag.
+ */
+ readonly attribute unsigned long flags;
+
+ /**
+ * The server-supplied realm of the authentication as defined in RFC 2617.
+ * Can be the empty string if the protocol does not support realms.
+ * Otherwise, this is a human-readable string like "Secret files".
+ */
+ readonly attribute AString realm;
+
+ /**
+ * The authentication scheme used for this request, if applicable. If the
+ * protocol for this authentication does not support schemes, this will be
+ * the empty string. Otherwise, this will be a string such as "basic" or
+ * "digest". This string will always be in lowercase.
+ */
+ readonly attribute AUTF8String authenticationScheme;
+
+ /**
+ * The initial value should be used to prefill the dialog or be shown
+ * in some other way to the user.
+ * On return, this parameter should contain the username entered by
+ * the user.
+ * This field can only be changed if the #ONLY_PASSWORD flag is not set.
+ */
+ attribute AString username;
+
+ /**
+ * The initial value should be used to prefill the dialog or be shown
+ * in some other way to the user.
+ * The password should not be shown in clear.
+ * On return, this parameter should contain the password entered by
+ * the user.
+ */
+ attribute AString password;
+
+ /**
+ * The initial value should be used to prefill the dialog or be shown
+ * in some other way to the user.
+ * On return, this parameter should contain the domain entered by
+ * the user.
+ * This attribute is only used if flags include #NEED_DOMAIN.
+ */
+ attribute AString domain;
+};