NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::HTTP - HTTP Basic and Digest authentication for Catalyst.

SYNOPSIS

        use Catalyst qw/
            Authentication
            Authentication::Store::Minimal
            Authentication::Credential::HTTP
        /;

        __PACKAGE__->config->{authentication}{http}{type} = 'any'; # or 'digest' or 'basic'
        __PACKAGE__->config->{authentication}{users} = {
            Mufasa => { password => "Circle Of Life", },
        };

        sub foo : Local {
            my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

            $c->authorization_required( realm => "foo" ); # named after the status code ;-)

            # either user gets authenticated or 401 is sent

            do_stuff();
        }

        # with ACL plugin
        __PACKAGE__->deny_access_unless("/path", sub { $[0]->authenticatehttp });

        sub end : Private {
            my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

            $c->authorization_required_response( realm => "foo" );
            $c->error(0);
        }

DESCRIPTION

This moduule lets you use HTTP authentication with Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication. Both basic and digest authentication are currently supported.

When authentication is required, this module sets a status of 401, and the body of the response to 'Authorization required.'. To override this and set your own content, check for the "$c->res->status == 401" in your "end" action, and change the body accordingly.

TERMS
Nonce

        A nonce is a one-time value sent with each digest authentication
        request header. The value must always be unique, so per default the
        last value of the nonce is kept using Catalyst::Plugin::Cache. To
        change this behaviour, override the
        "store_digest_authorization_nonce" and
        "get_digest_authorization_nonce" methods as shown below.

METHODS

authorization_required %opts

        Tries to "authenticate_http", and if that fails calls
        "authorization_required_response" and detaches the current action
        call stack.

        This method just passes the options through untouched.

authenticate_http %opts

        Looks inside "$c->request->headers" and processes the digest and
        basic (badly named) authorization header.

        This will only try the methods set in the configuration. First
        digest, then basic.

        See the next two methods for what %opts can contain.

authenticate_basic %opts
authenticate_digest %opts

        Try to authenticate one of the methods without checking if the
        method is allowed in the configuration.

        %opts can contain "store" (either an object or a name), "user" (to
        disregard %the username from the header altogether, overriding it
        with a username or user %object).

authorization_required_response %opts

        Sets "$c->response" to the correct status code, and adds the correct
        header to demand authentication data from the user agent.

        Typically used by "authorization_required", but may be invoked
        manually.

        %opts can contain "realm", "domain" and "algorithm", which are used
        to build %the digest header.

store_digest_authorization_nonce $key, $nonce get_digest_authorization_nonce $key

Set or get the $nonce object used by the digest auth mode.

        You may override these methods. By default they will call "get" and
        "set" on "$c->cache".

CONFIGURATION

All configuration is stored in
"YourApp->config->{authentication}{http}".

This should be a hash, and it can contain the following entries:

store

        Either a name or an object -- the default store to use for HTTP
        authentication.

type

Can be either "any" (the default), "basic" or "digest".

        This controls "authorization_required_response" and
        "authenticate_http", but not the "manual" methods.

authorization_required_message

        Set this to a string to override the default body content
        "Authorization required."

RESTRICTIONS

When using digest authentication, this module will only work together with authentication stores whose User objects have a "password" method that returns the plain-text password. It will not work together with Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Htpasswd, or Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::DBIC stores whose "password" methods return a hashed or salted version of the password.

AUTHORS

Yuval Kogman, "nothingmuch@woobling.org"

Jess Robinson

Sascha Kiefer "esskar@cpan.org"

SEE ALSO

RFC 2617 (or its successors), Catalyst::Plugin::Cache, Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

            Copyright (c) 2005-2006 the aforementioned authors. All rights
            reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute
            it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.