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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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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest
Dim bTls As Boolean
bTls = True
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
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 Chilkat.SecureString
success = ssUsername.Append("myUsername")
Dim ssPassword As New Chilkat.SecureString
success = ssPassword.Append("myPassword")

success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssUsername,ssPassword)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim responseText As String
responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog(responseText)