Authen::Simple::HTTP.3pm

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Version: 2006-01-12 (ubuntu - 08/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

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" This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.