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