NAME Parse::WWWAuthenticate - Parse the WWW-Authenticate HTTP header VERSION version 0.04 SYNOPSIS use Parse::WWWAuthenticate qw(parse_wwwa); my $header = 'Basic realm="test"'; my @challenges = parse_wwwa( $header ); for my $challenge ( @challenges ) { print "Server accepts: " . $challenge->{name}; } kinda more real life: use LWP::UserAgent; use Parse::WWWAuthenticate qw(parse_wwwa); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $response = $ua->get('http://some.domain.example'); my $header = $response->header('WWW-Authenticate'); my @challenges = parse_wwwa( $header ); for my $challenge ( @challenges ) { print "Try to use $challenge->{name}...\n"; } FUNCTIONS parse_wwwa parses the content of the WWW-Authenticate header and returns a hash of all the challenges and their data. my $header = 'Basic realm="test"'; my @challenges = parse_wwwa( $header ); for my $challenge ( @challenges ) { print "Try to use $challenge->{name}...\n"; } split_header_words ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The testcases were generated with the httpauth.xml file from https://greenbyte.de/tech/tc/httpauth. AUTHOR Renee Baecker COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2016 by Renee Baecker. This is free software, licensed under: The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)