(PowerShell) 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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# 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=="
# }

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/http.json")

$crypt = New-Object 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"

$ssLogin = New-Object Chilkat.SecureString
$ssPassword = New-Object 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.)
$crypt.DecryptSecureENC($json.StringOf("http_login"),$ssLogin)
$crypt.DecryptSecureENC($json.StringOf("http_password"),$ssPassword)

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

# Connect to a REST server.
$bTls = $true
$port = 443
$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)

$responseJson = $rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/helloWorld.html")
if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Show the LastRequestHeader that was sent.
$($rest.LastRequestHeader)

# The LastRequestHeader looks like this:

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