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.

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    var rest = new chilkat.Rest();
    var bTls = true;
    var bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(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.
    var username = "myUsername";
    var 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) {
        console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    var responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected");
    if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
        console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log(responseText);

}

chilkatExample();