Authen::Simple::HTTP(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Authen::Simple::HTTP(3pm)

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.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-01						 Authen::Simple::HTTP(3pm)