NAME Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::HTTP - HTTP Basic authentication for Catlayst. SYNOPSIS use Catalyst qw/ Authentication Authentication::Store::Moose Authentication::Credential::HTTP /; sub foo : Local { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; $c->authorization_required( realm => "foo" ); # named after the status code ;-) # either user gets authenticated or 401 is sent do_stuff(); } # with ACL plugin __PACKAGE__->deny_access_unless("/path", sub { $_[0]->authenticate_http }); sub end : Private { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; $c->authorization_required_response( realm => "foo" ); $c->error(0); } DESCRIPTION This moduule lets you use HTTP authentication with Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication. Currently this module only supports the Basic scheme, but upon request Digest will also be added. Patches welcome! METHODS authorization_required Tries to "authenticate_http", and if that fails calls "authorization_required_response" and detaches the current action call stack. authenticate_http Looks inside "$c->request->headers" and processes the basic (badly named) authorization header. authorization_required_response Sets "$c->response" to the correct status code, and adds the correct header to demand authentication data from the user agent. AUTHORS Yuval Kogman, "nothingmuch@woobling.org" Jess Robinson COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright (c) 2005 the aforementioned authors. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.