NAME¶

HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic - The Basic Authorization Header

VERSION¶

version 0.09

SYNOPSIS¶

  use HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic;
  # create from string
  my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new_from_string(
      'Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ=='
  );
  # create from parameters
  my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new(
      'Basic' => {
          username => 'Aladdin',
          password => 'open sesame'
      }
  );
  my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new(
      'Basic' => [ 'Aladdin', 'open sesame' ]
  );
  my $auth = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization::Basic->new(
      'Basic' => 'QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ=='
  );

DESCRIPTION¶

This class represents the Authorization header with the specific focus on the 'Basic' type.

METHODS¶

"new ( $type, $credentials )"

The $credentials argument can either be a Base64 encoded string (as would be passed in via the header), a HASH ref with username and password keys, or a two element ARRAY ref where the first element is the username and the second the password.

"new_from_string ( $header_string )"

"auth_type"

"username"

"password"

"as_string"

AUTHOR¶

Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

CONTRIBUTORS¶

• Andrew Nelson <anelson@cpan.org>
• Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
• Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Infinity Interactive, Inc..

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.