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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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Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim rest As ChilkatRest
rest.Initialize("rest")
Dim bTls As Boolean = True
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com", 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect)
If success = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
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.
Dim ssUsername As ChilkatSecureString
ssUsername.Initialize
ssUsername.Append("myUsername")
Dim ssPassword As ChilkatSecureString
ssPassword.Initialize
ssPassword.Append("myPassword")

success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssUsername, ssPassword)
If success = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim responseText As String = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET", "/api/protected")
If rest.LastMethodSuccess = False Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log(responseText)