libsoup Reference Manual: SoupAuthManager

## SoupAuthManager SoupAuthManager — HTTP client-side authentication handler |

## Functions

#define | SOUP_TYPE_AUTH_MANAGER
void | soup_auth_manager_use_auth ()

## Signals

void | authenticate | Run First

## Types and Values

| SoupAuthManager

## Object Hierarchy

        GObject
        ╰── SoupAuthManager

## Implemented Interfaces

SoupAuthManager implements SoupSessionFeature.

## Includes

    #include <libsoup/soup.h>

## Description

SoupAuthManager is the SoupSessionFeature that handles HTTP authentication for a SoupSession.

A SoupAuthManager is added to the session by default, and normally you don't need to worry about it at all. However, if you want to disable HTTP authentication, you can remove the feature from the session with `soup_session_remove_feature_by_type()`, or disable it on individual requests with `soup_message_disable_feature()`.

## Functions

### SOUP_TYPE_AUTH_MANAGER

    #define SOUP_TYPE_AUTH_MANAGER            (soup_auth_manager_get_type ())

The GType of SoupAuthManager; you can use this with `soup_session_remove_feature_by_type()` or `soup_message_disable_feature()`.

(Although this type has only been publicly visible since libsoup 2.42, it has always existed in the background, and you can use ``g_type_from_name ("SoupAuthManager")`` to get its GType in earlier releases.)

Since 2.42

### soup_auth_manager_use_auth ()

    void
    soup_auth_manager_use_auth (SoupAuthManager *manager,
                                SoupURI *uri,
                                SoupAuth *auth);

Records that `auth` is to be used under `uri` , as though a WWW-Authenticate header had been received at that URI. This can be used to "preload" `manager` 's auth cache, to avoid an extra HTTP round trip in the case where you know ahead of time that a 401 response will be returned.

This is only useful for authentication types where the initial Authorization header does not depend on any additional information from the server. (Eg, Basic or NTLM, but not Digest.)

#### Parameters

manager | a SoupAuthManager |
uri | the SoupURI under which `auth` is to be used |
auth | the SoupAuth to use |

Since 2.42

## Types and Values

### SoupAuthManager

    typedef struct _SoupAuthManager SoupAuthManager;

## Signal Details

### The `“authenticate”` signal

    void
    user_function (SoupAuthManager *manager,
                   SoupMessage     *msg,
                   SoupAuth        *auth,
                   gboolean         retrying,
                   gpointer         user_data)

Emitted when the manager requires the application to provide authentication credentials.

SoupSession connects to this signal and emits its own “authenticate” signal when it is emitted, so you shouldn't need to use this signal directly.

#### Parameters

manager | the SoupAuthManager |
msg | the SoupMessage being sent |
auth | the SoupAuth to authenticate |
retrying | `TRUE` if this is the second (or later) attempt |
user_data | user data set when the signal handler was connected. |

Flags: Run First

## See Also

SoupSession, SoupAuth