NAME¶
Authen::Simple::HTTP - 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.
SEE ALSO¶
Authen::Simple.
LWP::UserAgent.
LWPx::ParanoidAgent.
AUTHOR¶
Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"
COPYRIGHT¶
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
