NAME

Authen::Credential::plain - abstraction of a "plain" credential

DESCRIPTION

This helper module for Authen::Credential implements a "plain" credential, that is a pair of name and clear text password.

It supports the following attributes:

name

the (usually user) name

pass

the associated (clear text) password

It supports the following targets for the prepare() method:

HTTP.Basic

HTTP Basic authentication, it returns a string that can be used for the WWW-Authenticate header

EXAMPLE

            

              
              
use Authen::Credential;
use HTTP::Request;
# get the credential from somewhere
$cred = Authen::Credential->parse(...);
# use the prepare() method to get ready-to-use data
$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$req->header(Authorization => $cred->prepare("HTTP.Basic"));
            
          

SEE ALSO

Authen::Credential, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication.

AUTHOR

Lionel Cons http://cern.ch/lionel.cons

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