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Configure HTTP Basic Authentication with SecureString

Demonstrates Rest.SetAuthBasicSecure, which configures HTTP Basic authentication using SecureString objects instead of plaintext strings.

Background. A SecureString keeps sensitive values encrypted in memory, reducing the window in which credentials appear as readable plaintext. This is otherwise equivalent to SetAuthBasic.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

rest = chilkat.CkRest()
bTls = True
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

#  SetAuthBasicSecure configures HTTP Basic authentication using SecureString objects, which keep
#  the credentials encrypted in memory.
#  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
#  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
ssUsername = chilkat.CkSecureString()
ssUsername.Append("myUsername")
ssPassword = chilkat.CkSecureString()
ssPassword.Append("myPassword")

success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssUsername,ssPassword)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected")
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == False):
    print(rest.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print(responseText)