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.

bool success = false;

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();
bool bTls = true;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    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.
string username = "myUsername";
string password = "myPassword";

//  Configure HTTP Basic authentication.  Chilkat automatically adds the Authorization header to
//  each request sent through this object.
success = rest.SetAuthBasic(username,password);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

string responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine(responseText);