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.

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()
local bTls = true
local bAutoReconnect = true
local success = rest:connect("example.com", 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

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

-- Configure HTTP Basic authentication.  Chilkat automatically adds the Authorization header to
-- each request sent through this object.
success = rest:set_auth_basic(username, password)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

local responseText = rest:full_request_no_body("GET", "/api/protected")
if not rest.last_method_success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(responseText)