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1NAME
2 Authen::Simple::HTTP - Simple HTTP authentication
3
4SYNOPSIS
5 use Authen::Simple::HTTP;
6
7 my $http = Authen::Simple::HTTP->new(
8 url => 'http://www.host.com/protected'
9 );
10
11 if ( $http->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
12 # successfull authentication
13 }
14
15 # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
16
17 PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
18 PerlModule Authen::Simple::HTTP
19
20 PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleHTTP_url "http://www.host.com/protected"
21
22 <Location /protected>
23 PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::HTTP
24 AuthType Basic
25 AuthName "Protected Area"
26 Require valid-user
27 </Location>
28
29DESCRIPTION
30 Authenticate against an HTTP server.
31
32METHODS
33 * new
34 This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are
35 valid:
36
37 * url Url to authenticate against. Required.
38
39 url => 'http://www.host.com/protected'
40
41 * agent Any object that is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent.
42
43 agent => LWP::UserAgent->new;
44
45 * log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and
46 "warn".
47
48 log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::HTTP')
49
50 * authenticate( $username, $password )
51 Returns true on success and false on failure.
52
53SEE ALSO
54 Authen::Simple.
55
56 LWP::UserAgent.
57
58 LWPx::ParanoidAgent.
59
60AUTHOR
61 Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"
62
63COPYRIGHT
64 This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it
65 under the same terms as Perl itself.
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