Re: HTTPAPI question

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you're using GETURI it will do this automatically for BASIC
authentication.

You would set AUTHUSER to the application ID, and AUTHPW to the shared
secret and it will automatically use the colon and base64 encode it.

It's basically the same as when using a user and pw for basic
authentication.


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On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:45 PM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is less RPG-related, and more HTTP-related (I am not a web
> programmer).
>
> I'm working with a new API (as a consumer).  Their documentation states
> that the Authorization part of the header should be:
>
> Authorization Basic MTIzNDU6YWJjZGU=
>
> The characters after basic represent "The application ID and shared secret
> must be concatenated using a colon then RFC2045-MIME (base-64) encoded."
> (in this case 12345:abcde)
>
> So I did the concatenation and base64_encode in my program BEFORE using
> the HTTP_SETAUTH procedure of HTTPAPI.  After reviewing the debug.txt file,
> I could clearly see that HTTP_SETAUTH does that for me (I was basically
> encoding the "user" and "password" only to have HTTP_SETAUTH do it again)
>
> This code works just fine:
> rc = http_setauth(HTTP_AUTH_BASIC : applicationID  : sharedSecret);
>
> I would just like to understand how http_setauth "knows" to encode these.
> Is that an HTTP/HTTPS standard?
>
>
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