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Sets the actions that require a POST request. Takes any number of arguments. Can be called with no arguments to force all actions to require a POST.

Sets the actions that require a SSL-secured request. Takes any number of arguments. Can be called with no arguments to force all actions to require a SSL-secured.

Sets the actions that require a valid Security Component generated token. Takes any number of arguments. Can be called with no arguments to force all actions to require a valid authentication.

Sets the actions that require a valid HTTP-Authenticated request. Takes any number of arguments. Can be called with no arguments to force all actions to require valid HTTP-authentication.

Attempt to validate login credentials for a HTTP-authenticated request. $type is the type of HTTP-Authentication you want to check. Either 'basic', or 'digest'. If left null/empty both will be tried. Returns an array with login name and password if successful.

Generates the text for an HTTP-Authenticate request header from an array of $options.

$options generally contains a 'type', 'realm' . Type indicate which HTTP-Authenticate method to use. Realm defaults to the current HTTP server environment.

Parse an HTTP digest authentication request. Returns and array of digest data as an associative array if succesful, and null on failure.

Creates a hash that to be compared with an HTTP digest-authenticated response. $data should be an array created by SecurityComponent::parseDigestAuthData().

Black-hole an invalid request with a 404 error or a custom callback. With no callback, the request will be exited. If a controller callback is set to SecurityComponent::blackHoleCallback, it will be called and passed any error information.