Method authenticate

Lib/imaplib.py:504–530

Authenticate command - requires response processing. 'mechanism' specifies which authentication mechanism is to be used - it must appear in .capabilities in the form AUTH= . 'authobject' must be a callable object: data = authobje

(self, mechanism, authobject)

    def authenticate(self, mechanism, authobject):
        """Authenticate command - requires response processing.

        'mechanism' specifies which authentication mechanism is to
        be used - it must appear in <instance>.capabilities in the
        form AUTH=<mechanism>.

        'authobject' must be a callable object:

                data = authobject(response)

        It will be called to process server continuation responses; the
        response argument it is passed will be a bytes.  It should return bytes
        data that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server.  It should
        return None if the client abort response '*' should be sent instead.
        """
        mech = mechanism.upper()
        # XXX: shouldn't this code be removed, not commented out?
        #cap = 'AUTH=%s' % mech
        #if not cap in self.capabilities:       # Let the server decide!
        #    raise self.error("Server doesn't allow %s authentication." % mech)
        self.literal = _Authenticator(authobject).process
        typ, dat = self._simple_command('AUTHENTICATE', mech)
        if typ != 'OK':
            raise self.error(dat[-1].decode('utf-8', 'replace'))
        self.state = 'AUTH'
        return typ, dat


    def capability(self):