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package sun.net.www.protocol.http;

/**
 * @author Michael McMahon
 *
 * Interface provided by internal http authentication cache.
 * NB. This API will be replaced in a future release, and should
 * not be made public.
 */

public interface AuthCache {

    /**
     * Put an entry in the cache. pkey is a string specified as follows:
     *
     * A:[B:]C:D:E[:F]   Between 4 and 6 fields separated by ":"
     *          where the fields have the following meaning:
     * A is "s" or "p" for server or proxy authentication respectively
     * B is optional and is the {@link AuthScheme}, e.g. BASIC, DIGEST, NTLM, etc
     * C is either "http" or "https"
     * D is the hostname
     * E is the port number
     * F is optional and if present is the realm
     *
     * Generally, two entries are created for each AuthCacheValue,
     * one including the realm and one without the realm.
     * Also, for some schemes (digest) multiple entries may be created
     * with the same pkey, but with a different path value in
     * the AuthCacheValue.
     */
    public void put (String pkey, AuthCacheValue value);

    /**
     * Get an entry from the cache based on pkey as described above, but also
     * using a pathname (skey) and the cache must return an entry
     * if skey is a sub-path of the AuthCacheValue.path field.
     */
    public AuthCacheValue get (String pkey, String skey);

    /**
     * remove the entry from the cache whose pkey is specified and
     * whose path is equal to entry.path. If entry is null then
     * all entries with the same pkey should be removed.
     */
    public void remove (String pkey, AuthCacheValue entry);
}
