AuthManager#

class AuthManager(**properties: Any)#

Superclasses: Object

Implemented Interfaces: SessionFeature

HTTP client-side authentication handler.

AuthManager is the SessionFeature that handles HTTP authentication for a Session.

A AuthManager 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 remove_feature_by_type or disable it on individual requests with disable_feature.

You can use this with remove_feature_by_type or 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 [alias``GObject``.Type] in earlier releases.)

Methods#

class AuthManager
clear_cached_credentials() → None#

Clear all credentials cached by manager.

use_auth(uri: Uri, auth: Auth) → None#

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:

  • uri – the Uri under which auth is to be used

  • auth – the Auth to use