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A credential factory defines a way to generate a particular kind of authentication challenge and a way to interpret the responses to these challenges. It creates ICredentials providers from responses. These objects will be used with twisted.cred to authenticate an authorize requests.

Method decode Create a credentials object from the given response.
Method getChallenge Generate a new challenge to be sent to a client.
Attribute scheme A str giving the name of the authentication scheme with which this factory is associated. For example, 'basic' or 'digest'.
def decode(response, request): (source)

Create a credentials object from the given response.

Parameters
response:strscheme specific response string
request:twisted.web.http.RequestThe request being processed (from which the response was taken).
Returns
twisted.cred.credentials.ICredentials providerThe credentials represented by the given response.
Raises
twisted.cred.error.LoginFailedIf the response is invalid.
def getChallenge(request): (source)

Generate a new challenge to be sent to a client.

Parameters
request:twisted.web.http.RequestThe request the response to which this challenge will be included.
Returns
dictA mapping from str challenge fields to associated str values.

A str giving the name of the authentication scheme with which this factory is associated. For example, 'basic' or 'digest'.