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.