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.

