(Java) 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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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    boolean success;

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

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

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/http.json");

    CkCrypt2 crypt = new CkCrypt2();

    // These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
    crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes");
    crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc");
    crypt.put_KeyLength(128);
    crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.put_EncodingMode("base64");

    CkSecureString ssLogin = new CkSecureString();
    CkSecureString ssPassword = new CkSecureString();

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

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect to a REST server.
    boolean bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

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

    String responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/helloWorld.html");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        System.out.println(rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Show the LastRequestHeader that was sent.
    System.out.println(rest.lastRequestHeader());

    // The LastRequestHeader looks like this:

    // Host: chilkatsoft.com
    // Authorization: Basic bXlIdHRwTG9naW46bXlIdHRwUGFzc3dvcmQ=
  }
}