Configure HTTP Basic Authentication with SecureString

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

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  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.
Dim ssUsername As New ChilkatSecureString
success = ssUsername.Append("myUsername")
Dim ssPassword As New ChilkatSecureString
success = ssPassword.Append("myPassword")

success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssUsername,ssPassword)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim responseText As String
responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print responseText