How would i go about replicating this in objective-c
curl -u rick@email.com:mypassword http://foo.lighthouseapp.com/projects.xml
I've been playing around with the ASIHTTPRequest library but can't seem to figure it out,
obviously sending my request like so returns an authentication error:
-(void)submit:(id)sender {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://ldn.lighthouseapp.com/projects/63254-londonist-20/tickets.xml"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request startSynchronous];
NSError *error = [request error];
if (!error) {
NSString *response = [request responseString];
NSLog(@"response:%@",response);
} else {
NSLog(@"error:%@",error);
}
}
This is probably very simple i'm just missing something pretty major
From ASIHTTPRequest Documentation
With a Request Header
[request addRequestHeader:@"Authorization"
value:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Basic %@",
[ASIHTTPRequest base64forData:
[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", theUsername, thePassword]
dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]]];
If don't want use any frameworks (like me) you can do in the next way:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"https://api.github.com"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
NSString *authStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", login, password];
NSData *authData = [authStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *authValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Basic %@", [authData base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0]];
[request setValue:authValue forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
[[session dataTaskWithRequest:request
completionHandler:^(NSData * _Nullable data, NSURLResponse * _Nullable response, NSError * _Nullable error) {
if (!error) {
NSDictionary *responseDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:kNilOptions error:&error];
NSLog(@"%@",responseDictionary);
}
}] resume];
If you are using ASIHTTPRequest, this is all that is needed:
request.shouldPresentCredentialsBeforeChallenge = YES;
[request addBasicAuthenticationHeaderWithUsername:@"USER" andPassword:@"PASSWORD"];