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AUTHENTICATION_INFO Structure

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The AUTHENTICATION_INFO data structure contains authentication information for each URL, such as user name and password.

typedef struct _AUTHENTICATION_INFO{
  DWORD dwSize;
  AUTH_TYPE atAuthenticationType; 
  LPCWSTR pcwszUser;
  LPCWSTR pcwszPassword;
} AUTHENTICATION_INFO

Members

The following table shows members of the AUTHENTICATION_INFO data structure and a brief description of each.

Name Description

dwSize

A DWORD representing the actual size of structure (bytes)

atAuthenticationType

A value from the AUTH_TYPE Enumeration defining the authentication type used for the URL.

pcwszUser

A LPCWSTSR representing the username, including domain to use for crawling content.

pcwszPassword

A LPCWSTSR representing the password to use for crawling content.

Remarks

The pcwszUser and pcwszPassword fields are only used for authentication types that require a username and password explicitly specified, such as Basic authentication.

See Also

Reference

CreateAccessor Method

Concepts

Protocol Handler Data Structures
Protocol Handler Reference
AUTH_TYPE Enumeration