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.

Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest
Dim bTls As Boolean = True
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  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 username As String = "myUsername"
Dim password As String = "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) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


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

Debug.WriteLine(responseText)