> >If I look at the inheritance tree for (say)
> >com.uwyn.rife.authentication.elements.PurgingMemoryAuthenticated
> >it's fairly deep (see below).
> >
> >Exactly which class has to be extened -- or which interface
> >has to be implemented -- to make an authentication provider ?
> 
> None ;-)
> 
> RIFE authentication is totally based on behavioral inheritance  
> (inherits declaration).
> 
> To write an element for HTTP authentication I would just extend  
> Element and start from scratch, using the managers in the  
> authentication package. Much of the logic in the extending elements  
> are related to forms, html, cookies and query parameters.

welll ehhh so the authent'n element simply either 
blocks the URL or passes it ?  Is that the idea ?  

When it gets the identity, it merely sets a cookie
or a global variable ?  Is there a subclass or a
basic Impl -class that does a lot of this ? 


fred

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