The prototype for a #SoupAuthDomain generic authentication callback.
The callback should look up the user's password, call
soup_auth_domain_check_password(), and use the return value from
that method as its own return value.
In general, for security reasons, it is preferable to use the
auth-domain-specific auth callbacks (eg,
#SoupAuthDomainBasicAuthCallback and
#SoupAuthDomainDigestAuthCallback), because they don't require
keeping a cleartext password database. Most users will use the same
password for many different sites, meaning if any site with a
cleartext password database is compromised, accounts on other
servers might be compromised as well. For many of the cases where
#SoupServer is used, this is not really relevant, but it may still
be worth considering.
The prototype for a #SoupAuthDomain generic authentication callback.
The callback should look up the user's password, call soup_auth_domain_check_password(), and use the return value from that method as its own return value.
In general, for security reasons, it is preferable to use the auth-domain-specific auth callbacks (eg, #SoupAuthDomainBasicAuthCallback and #SoupAuthDomainDigestAuthCallback), because they don't require keeping a cleartext password database. Most users will use the same password for many different sites, meaning if any site with a cleartext password database is compromised, accounts on other servers might be compromised as well. For many of the cases where #SoupServer is used, this is not really relevant, but it may still be worth considering.