Soup.Auth.new
Description: Reference for Soup.Auth.new

### Constructor

# Soup Authnew

#### Declaration [src]

    SoupAuth*
    soup_auth_new (
      GType type,
      SoupMessage* msg,
      const char* auth_header
    )

#### Description [src]

Creates a new `SoupAuth` of type `type` with the information from `msg` and `auth_header`.

This is called by `SoupSession`; you will normally not create auths yourself.

#### Parameters

`type` | `GType`
| The type of auth to create (a subtype of `SoupAuth`)
`msg` | `SoupMessage`
| The `SoupMessage` the auth is being created for.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`auth_header` | `const char*`
| The WWW-Authenticate/Proxy-Authenticate header.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
| The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Returns: | `SoupAuth`
| The new `SoupAuth`, or `NULL` if it could not be created.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
| The return value can be `NULL`.