[ANNOUNCE] Perl CPAN module LWP::Authen::Negotiate 0.05

[ANNOUNCE] Perl CPAN module LWP::Authen::Negotiate 0.05

Perl CPAN module LWP::Authen::Negotiate
GSSAPI based Authentication Plugin for LWP.


just install LWP::Authen::Negotiate, LWP uses it as authentication plugin.
Use your LWP::UserAgent Scripts as usual. Authentication is done
transparent based on your GSSAPI installation (MIT Kerberos or Heimdal)
WWW-Negotiate supporting Webservers are
IIS or Apache with mod_auth_kerb for example.


usage example:


#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
require LWP::UserAgent;
# uncomment if you want see what is going wrong messages
#
#use LWP::Debug qw(+);
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get('http://testwurst.grolmsnet.lan:8090/geheim/');
if ($response->is_success) {
print $response->content; # or whatever
}
else {
die $response->status_line;
}

The actual version is available at CPAN


Many thanks to Leif Johansson who co-authored the module.

I hope it is useful!

Achim Grolms