man HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic (3): The Basic Authorization Header

VERSION

version 0.09

SYNOPSIS

use HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic;
# create from string
my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new_from_string(
'Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ=='
);
# create from parameters
my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new(
'Basic' => {
username => 'Aladdin',
password => 'open sesame'
}
);
my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new(
'Basic' => [ 'Aladdin', 'open sesame' ]
);
my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new(
'Basic' => 'QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ=='
);

DESCRIPTION

This class represents the Authorization header with the specific focus on the 'Basic' type.

METHODS

"new ( $type, $credentials )": The $credentials argument can either be a Base64 encoded string (as would be passed in via the header), a HASH ref with username and password keys, or a two element ARRAY ref where the first element is the username and the second the password.
"new_from_string ( $header_string )"
"auth_type"
"username"
"password"
"as_string"

AUTHOR

Stevan Little <[email protected]>

CONTRIBUTORS

Andrew Nelson <[email protected]>
Dave Rolsky <[email protected]>
Florian Ragwitz <[email protected]>
Jesse Luehrs <[email protected]>
Karen Etheridge <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.