NAME

Authen::Credential::plain - abstraction of a "plain" credential

DESCRIPTION

This helper module for Authen::Credential implements a "plain" credential, that is a pair of name and clear text password.

It supports the following attributes:

name

the (usually user) name

pass

the associated (clear text) password

It supports the following targets for the prepare() method:

HTTP.Basic

HTTP Basic authentication, it returns a string that can be used for the WWW-Authenticate header

EXAMPLE

  use Authen::Credential;
  use HTTP::Request;

  # get the credential from somewhere
  $cred = Authen::Credential->parse(...);

  # use the prepare() method to get ready-to-use data
  $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
  $req->header(Authorization => $cred->prepare("HTTP.Basic"));

SEE ALSO

Authen::Credential, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication.

AUTHOR

Lionel Cons http://cern.ch/lionel.cons

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