AuthenticationSchemes Enumeration
Specifies protocols for authentication.
This enumeration has a FlagsAttribute attribute that allows a bitwise combination of its member values.
Namespace: System.NetAssembly: System (in System.dll)
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| None | No authentication is allowed. A client requesting an HttpListener object with this flag set will always receive a 403 Forbidden status. Use this flag when a resource should never be served to a client. | |
| Digest | Specifies digest authentication. For additional information, see RFC2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Authentication. This document is available at http://www.rfc-editor.org | |
| Negotiate | Negotiates with the client to determine the authentication scheme. If both client and server support Kerberos, it is used; otherwise, NTLM is used. | |
| Ntlm | Specifies NTLM authentication. | |
| Basic | Specifies basic authentication. For additional information, see RFC2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Authentication. This document is available at http://www.rfc-editor.org. | |
| Anonymous | Specifies anonymous authentication. | |
| IntegratedWindowsAuthentication | Specifies Windows authentication. |
This enumeration is used to specify the method used to authenticate client requests being processed by HttpListener objects.
Note Basic authentication requires the exchange of a password and should therefore be avoided except in the case of secure, encrypted connections.
The following code example demonstrates using the Negotiate enumeration value to specify that clients are authenticated using the Negotiate security protocol.
Console.WriteLine("Listening for {0} prefixes...", listener.Prefixes.Count) Dim context As HttpListenerContext = listener.GetContext() Dim request As HttpListenerRequest = context.Request Console.WriteLine("Received a request.") ' This server requires a valid client certificate ' for requests that are not sent from the local computer. ' Did the client omit the certificate or send an invalid certificate? If request.IsAuthenticated AndAlso request.GetClientCertificate() Is Nothing OrElse request.ClientCertificateError <> 0 Then ' Send a 403 response. Dim badCertificateResponse As HttpListenerResponse = context.Response SendBadCertificateResponse(badCertificateResponse) Console.WriteLine("Client has invalid certificate.") Continue Do End If
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