(Classic ASP) REST Basic Auth with Secure Strings

Demonstrates how to do REST Basic authentication using secure strings.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

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' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
' that contains this:

' {
'   "http_login": "mCrOmA7mBA7Au9RuJGb9hw==",
'   "http_password": "jJtiI9TgErTTpqBz9JtHBw=="
' }

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject")
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/http.json")

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Crypt2")
set crypt = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Crypt2")

' These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes"
crypt.CipherMode = "cbc"
crypt.KeyLength = 128
crypt.SetEncodedKey "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex"
crypt.SetEncodedIV "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex"
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.SecureString")
set ssLogin = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.SecureString")
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.SecureString")
set ssPassword = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.SecureString")

' Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
' a randomly generated session key.)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("http_login"),ssLogin)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("http_password"),ssPassword)

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")
set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to a REST server.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Cause the "Authorization: Basic ..." header to be added to HTTP requests
success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssLogin,ssPassword)

responseJson = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/helloWorld.html")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Show the LastRequestHeader that was sent.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastRequestHeader) & "</pre>"

' The LastRequestHeader looks like this:

' Host: chilkatsoft.com
' Authorization: Basic bXlIdHRwTG9naW46bXlIdHRwUGFzc3dvcmQ=

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