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.