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NAME

LWP::Authen::Negotiate - GSSAPI Authentication Plugin for LWP

SYNOPSIS

just install the module, LWP uses it as plugin. (LWP searches at location LWP::Authen::Negotiate for a module that can handle HTTP Negotiate if the Webserver is able to do HTTP-Negotiate).

Use your LWP::UserAgent Scripts as usual

DESCRIPTION

To see what ist going on add

   use LWP::Debug qw(+);

to yor LWP-using Scripts.

EXPORT

None by default

ENVIROMENT

LWP_AUTHEN_NEGOTIATE_MECH

selects the GSSAPI-mechanism to use: 'KRB5' or 'SPNEGO' (if your GSSAPI supports it). Since SPNEGO isn't widely deployed yet 'KRB5' is the default. This may change in the future. Always set LWP_AUTHEN_NEGOTIATE_MECH to indicate your preference.

LWP_AUTHEN_NEGOTIATE_DELEGATE

Define to enable ticket forwarding to webserver.

SEE ALSO

GSSAPI

http://www.kerberosprotocols.org/index.php/Web

http://www.kerberosprotocols.org/index.php/Draft-brezak-spnego-http-03.txt

http://modauthkerb.sourceforge.net/

SUPPORT

http://perlgssapi.sourceforge.net/

Project home of GSSAPI related modules

Mailinglists
perlgssapi-users@lists.sourceforge.net

User questions

perlgssapi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net

Developer discussions

AUTHOR

Leif Johannson, <leifj@it.su.se>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Leif Johannson, <leifj@it.su.se>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.