weblogic.security.spi
Interface ChallengeIdentityAsserter

public interface ChallengeIdentityAsserter

extends IdentityAsserter

The ChallengeIdentityAsserter interface allows Identity Assertion providers to support authentication protocols such as Microsoft's NTLM and other challenge/response authentication mechanisms.

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Fields inherited from class weblogic.security.spi.IdentityAsserter

AU_TYPE, CSI_ANONYMOUS_TYPE, CSI_DISTINGUISHED_NAME_TYPE, CSI_PRINCIPAL_TYPE, CSI_X509_CERTCHAIN_TYPE, X509_TYPE

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

getChallengeToken(java.lang.String type) Gets the Identity Assertion provider's challenge token.

Methods inherited from interface weblogic.security.spi.IdentityAsserter

assertIdentity

Method Detail

getChallengeToken

public java.lang.Object getChallengeToken(java.lang.String type)

Gets the Identity Assertion provider's challenge token.

Parameters:

type - the type of token to use for identity assertion.

Returns:

the Identity Assertion provider's challenge token, which is null for unsupported token types.