Understanding CURL to Omnis example

[Kelly Burgess]

I misread bintobase64() - it returns a binary, not a character string.  So that one line in my example needs correcting:

> Calculate authHeader as con('Basic ',bintobase64(authString))

should be
   Calculate authHeader as con('Basic ',utf8tochar(bintobase64(authString)))

Kelly


> On Mar 9, 2023, at 9:36 PM, Kelly Burgess <kellyb at montana.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Das,
> 
> According to this page - https://reqbin.com/req/c-2cd3jxee/curl-post-with-basic-authentication-example
> 
> it says that CURL will base64-encode the user:password data and pass it in an Authorization header.
> 
>> Curl automatically converts the provided login:password pair into a Base64-encoded string and adds an appropriate HTTP header to the request: 
>> 
>> "Authorization: Basic bG9naW46cGFzc3dvcmQ="
> 
> So I suggest that you try that.  Don't include any '-u' anywhere, because that's just the option switch used by CURL to tell it that a user:password follows.
> 
> Calculate authString as con(userID,':',authToken)
> Calculate authHeader as con('Basic ',bintobase64(authString))
> Do headerList.$add('Authorization',authHeader)
> 
> Kelly