Configure HTTP Basic Authentication for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.SetAuthBasic, which configures HTTP Basic authentication from a username and password. Chilkat automatically adds the Authorization header to each request sent through the object.

#include <C_CkRest.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRest rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    const char *username;
    const char *password;
    const char *responseText;

    success = FALSE;

    rest = CkRest_Create();
    bTls = TRUE;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRest_Connect(rest,"example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    //  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
    //  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    username = "myUsername";
    password = "myPassword";

    //  Configure HTTP Basic authentication.  Chilkat automatically adds the Authorization header to
    //  each request sent through this object.
    success = CkRest_SetAuthBasic(rest,username,password);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    responseText = CkRest_fullRequestNoBody(rest,"GET","/api/protected");
    if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    printf("%s\n",responseText);


    CkRest_Dispose(rest);

    }