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.