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package org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.protocol.HttpContext;
/**
* Provider of authentication credentials.
* <p>
* Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared
* data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed
* from multiple threads.
*
* @since 4.0
*/
public interface CredentialsProvider {
/**
* Returns {@link Credentials credentials} for the given authentication scope,
* if available.
*
* @param authscope the {@link AuthScope authentication scope}
* @param context the {@link HttpContext http context}
* @return the credentials
* @since 5.0
*/
Credentials getCredentials(AuthScope authscope, HttpContext context);
}