Authen:...l::plain(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Authen::Credential::plain — it's an abstraction of a "plain" credential, bestie 💖 (that's a Perl manual page, section 3, library calls, iykyk)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this is a helper module for Authen::Credential, and what it does is implement a "plain" credential — which is literally just a pair of a name and a clear text password. that's it. that's the whole vibe. simple, iconic, no notes 💅

it supports the following attributes:

• name — the (usually user) name 🫶
• pass — the associated (clear text) password 🙈

and it supports the following targets for the prepare() method:

• HTTP.Basic — HTTP Basic authentication. it returns a string that can be used for the "WWW-Authenticate" header ✨

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🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

not me showing you exactly how it's done, periodt:

  use Authen::Credential;
  use HTTP::Request;

  # get the credential from somewhere
  $cred = Authen::Credential->parse(...);

  # use the prepare() method to get ready-to-use data
  $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
  $req->header(Authorization => $cred->prepare("HTTP.Basic"));

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Authen::Credential — the main character, fr fr 👑
• <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication> — the lore if you wanna go deeper 🌈

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Lionel Cons <http://cern.ch/lionel.cons> — a whole legend 🫶

Copyright (C) CERN 2011-2015

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and that's the whole page, bestie — slay 💖 this was documented with perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it ate. no cap. ✨🎀🦋