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.

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest
$bTls = $true
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("example.com",443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
#  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$username = "myUsername"
$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 -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$responseText = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected")
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$($responseText)