(Go) HTTPS Windows Integrated Authentication

This example pertains to running on the Windows operating system only.

It provides guidance on how to send HTTP requests using the current logged-on Windows user credentials. This is where NTLM/Negotiate authentication is used, but the login/password credentials are not explicitly provided by the application, but are implicitly provided based on the Windows logged-on user (i.e. the Windows account for the running process).

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

    http := chilkat.NewHttp()

    // Chilkat implements the NTLM protocol directly, which is how it can be used on non-Windows systems.
    // However, Chilkat can also optionally use Microsoft's SSPI (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/secauthn/ssp-packages-provided-by-microsoft) 
    // to allow for Windows Integrated Authentication.

    // Setting the HTTP Login equal to the empty string, and the Password equal to the keyword "default"
    // will cause Chilkat to use the Microsoft SSPI w/ integrated authentication.
    http.SetLogin("")
    http.SetPassword("default")

    // We can also explicitly indicate that NTLM or Negotiate authentication is to be used:
    http.SetNegotiateAuth(true)

    // Set various properties unrelated to authentication..
    // Automatically follow redirects.
    http.SetFollowRedirects(true)
    // Give verbose logging in the LastErrorText (in case there are errors)
    http.SetVerboseLogging(true)
    // Optionally log the exact session to a file (for debugging)
    http.SetSessionLogFilename("c:/someDir/session.txt")
    // Perhaps you wish to be seen as a browser on Mac OS X..
    http.SetUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB) AppleWebKit/534.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.500.0 Safari/534.6")

    // Note: If the result of authentication is to set Cookies that are used in subsequent requests,
    // then make sure Chilkat both saves and sends cookies: 
    http.SetSaveCookies(true)
    http.SetSendCookies(true)
    http.SetCookieDir("memory")

    // Send a GET request to a URL, using Windows Integrated Authentication...
    responseStr := http.QuickGetStr("https://somewhere.net/api/user")
    if http.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
        fmt.Println(http.LastErrorText())
        http.DisposeHttp()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("response status code = ", http.LastStatus())
    fmt.Println("response header:")
    fmt.Println(http.LastHeader())
    fmt.Println("----")
    fmt.Println(*responseStr)

    http.DisposeHttp()