This package provides a single interface for implementing multiple standard authentication mechanisms commonly used by Internet protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, etc..
Currently it implements following mechanisms:
- PLAIN
- LOGIN
- CRAM-MD5
- NTLM (used by Windows or Linux/Unix with Samba)
- Basic (used in HTTP Basic authentication)
- Digest (used in HTTP Digest authentication)
See the "Packages that need this class" for examples of usage. |