PHP ActiveX

REST Basic Auth with Secure Strings

Demonstrates how to do REST Basic authentication using secure strings.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
// that contains this:

// {
//   "http_login": "mCrOmA7mBA7Au9RuJGb9hw==",
//   "http_password": "jJtiI9TgErTTpqBz9JtHBw=="
// }

$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->LoadFile('qa_data/passwords/http.json');

$crypt = new COM("Chilkat.Crypt2");

// These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
$crypt->CryptAlgorithm = 'aes';
$crypt->CipherMode = 'cbc';
$crypt->KeyLength = 128;
$crypt->SetEncodedKey('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F','hex');
$crypt->SetEncodedIV('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F','hex');
$crypt->EncodingMode = 'base64';

$ssLogin = new COM("Chilkat.SecureString");
$ssPassword = new COM("Chilkat.SecureString");

// Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
// a randomly generated session key.)
$crypt->DecryptSecureENC($json->stringOf('http_login'),$ssLogin);
$crypt->DecryptSecureENC($json->stringOf('http_password'),$ssPassword);

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// Connect to a REST server.
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('chilkatsoft.com',$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);

// Cause the "Authorization: Basic ..." header to be added to HTTP requests
$rest->SetAuthBasicSecure($ssLogin,$ssPassword);

$responseJson = $rest->fullRequestNoBody('GET','/helloWorld.html');
if ($rest->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Show the LastRequestHeader that was sent.
print $rest->LastRequestHeader . "\n";

// The LastRequestHeader looks like this:

// Host: chilkatsoft.com
// Authorization: Basic bXlIdHRwTG9naW46bXlIdHRwUGFzc3dvcmQ=

?>