Authen::Simple::HTTP(3) Simple HTTP authentication

SYNOPSIS


use Authen::Simple::HTTP;

my $http = Authen::Simple::HTTP->new(
url => 'http://www.host.com/protected'
);

if ( $http->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}

# or as a mod_perl Authen handler

PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::HTTP
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleHTTP_url "http://www.host.com/protected"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::HTTP
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against an HTTP server.

METHODS

  • new

    This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

  • url

    Url to authenticate against. Required. 

        url => 'http://www.host.com/protected'
  • agent

    Any object that is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent. 

        agent => LWP::UserAgent->new;
  • log

    Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn". 

        log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::HTTP')
  • authenticate( $username, $password )

    Returns true on success and false on failure.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "[email protected]"

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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