Classic ASP

Configure HTTP Basic Authentication with SecureString

Demonstrates Rest.SetAuthBasicSecure, which configures HTTP Basic authentication using SecureString objects instead of plaintext strings.

Background. A SecureString keeps sensitive values encrypted in memory, reducing the window in which credentials appear as readable plaintext. This is otherwise equivalent to SetAuthBasic.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")
bTls = 1
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  SetAuthBasicSecure configures HTTP Basic authentication using SecureString objects, which keep
'  the credentials encrypted in memory.
'  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
'  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
set ssUsername = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.SecureString")
success = ssUsername.Append("myUsername")
set ssPassword = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.SecureString")
success = ssPassword.Append("myPassword")

success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssUsername,ssPassword)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( responseText) & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>