Plack::Middleware::AutUseraContributed Perl DPlack::Middleware::Auth::Basic(3)NAMEPlack::Middleware::Auth::Basic - Simple basic authentication middleware
SYNOPSIS
use Plack::Builder;
my $app = sub { ... };
builder {
enable "Auth::Basic", authenticator => \&authen_cb;
$app;
};
sub authen_cb {
my($username, $password) = @_;
return $username eq 'admin' && $password eq 's3cr3t';
}
DESCRIPTIONPlack::Middleware::Auth::Basic is a basic authentication handler for
Plack.
CONFIGURATION
authenticator
A callback function that takes username and password supplied and
returns whether the authentication succeeds. Required.
Authenticator can also be an object that responds to "authenticate"
method that takes username and password and returns boolean, so
backends for Authen::Simple is perfect to use:
use Authen::Simple::LDAP;
enable "Auth::Basic", authenticator => Authen::Simple::LDAP->new(...);
realm
Realm name to display in the basic authentication dialog. Defaults
to restricted area.
LIMITATIONS
This middleware expects that the application has a full access to the
headers sent by clients in PSGI environment. That is normally the case
with standalone Perl PSGI web servers such as Starman or
HTTP::Server::Simple::PSGI.
However, in a web server configuration where you can't achieve this
(i.e. using your application via Apache's mod_cgi), this middleware
does not work since your application can't know the value of
"Authorization:" header.
If you use Apache as a web server and CGI to run your PSGI application,
you can either a) compile Apache with
"-DSECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION" option, or b) use mod_rewrite to
pass the Authorization header to the application with the rewrite rule
like following.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
AUTHOR
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
SEE ALSO
Plack
perl v5.14.2 2012-08-29 Plack::Middleware::Auth::Basic(3)
