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# Apache Sling Authentication Service

This module is part of the [Apache Sling](https://sling.apache.org) project.

The Sling Authentication Service bundle provides the basic mechanisms to authenticate HTTP requests with a JCR repository. The algorithms for extracting authentication details from the requests is extensible by implementing an AuthenticationHandler interface.

## Installation

This bundle should be installed into an OSGi framework together with the Apache Sling Framework.
Beyond Apache Sling it has the following requirements (bundles to be installed in at least this version as well):
- Apache Commons Codec 1.13.2
- Apache Sling Commons Metrics 1.2.8 (starting with version 1.5.2)
- io.dropwizard.metrics:metrics-core:3.2.6 (starting with version 1.5.2)