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 "[email protected]"

COPYRIGHT
   This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the same terms as Perl itself.