chanism 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.
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