Improve documentation for authenticate_digest()

depends on Catalyst::Plugin::Cache, not Catalyst::Plugin::Session
reorganize and clarify

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index c22f75e..f5c5b14 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
    - Make Test::Exception and Test::MockObject be listed as test_requires
      rather than requires (RT#54029)
    - Skip WWW::Mech tests unless WWW::Mech is a new enough version (RT#55303).
+   - Improve documentation for authenticate_digest() (rjk)
+     - depends on Catalyst::Plugin::Cache, not Catalyst::Plugin::Session
+     - reorganize and clarify
 
 1.012 2010-03-07
    - Move actions out of the test applications to stop warnings.

diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Authentication/Credential/HTTP.pm b/lib/Catalyst/Authentication/Credential/HTTP.pm
index 5897b57..1e2648d 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Catalyst/Authentication/Credential/HTTP.pm
+++ b/lib/Catalyst/Authentication/Credential/HTTP.pm
@@ -528,12 +528,17 @@ Performs HTTP basic authentication.
 
 =item authenticate_digest $c, $realm, \%auth_info
 
-Performs HTTP digest authentication. Note that the password_type B<must> by I<clear> for
-digest authentication to succeed, and you must have L<Catalyst::Plugin::Session> in
-your application as digest authentication needs to store persistent data.
+Performs HTTP digest authentication.
 
-Note - if you do not want to store your user passwords as clear text, then it is possible
-to store instead the MD5 digest in hex of the string '$username:$realm:$password' 
+The password_type B<must> be I<clear> for digest authentication to
+succeed.  If you do not want to store your user passwords as clear
+text, you may instead store the MD5 digest in hex of the string
+'$username:$realm:$password'.
+
+L<Catalyst::Plugin::Cache> is used for persistent storage of the nonce
+values (see L</Nonce>).  It must be loaded in your application, unless
+you override the C<store_digest_authorization_nonce> and
+C<get_digest_authorization_nonce> methods as shown below.
 
 Takes an additional parameter of I<algorithm>, the possible values of which are 'MD5' (the default)
 and 'MD5-sess'. For more information about 'MD5-sess', see section 3.2.2.2 in RFC 2617.