Question

I am trying to get data from WebService for my Ipad App.

To do that, I am using a NSURLConnection with NSMutableURLRequest.

Web Services are published on Apache-Coyote 1.1 with Preemptive Basic Authentication, but I don’t know how to send my credentials from Objective-C.

Anybody knows how can I set my user/password in Objective-C to log my clients with the Apache premptive authentication system?

Thank you.

Answer 1

EDIT:

In order to set the creds yourself, you’ll need to be able to base64 encode the username and password and set the appropriate header. Matt Gallagher, from Cocoa With Love, has a great post on how to add a category to NSData to easily do this.

NSString* username = @"username";
NSString* password = @"password";

NSString* encodedUsername = [[username dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] base64EncodedString];
NSString* encodedPassword = [[password dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] base64EncodedString];

NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://yourUrl.com/"];
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSString* headerValue = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Basic %@:%@", encodedUsername, encodedPassowrd];
[request addValue:@"Authorization" forHTTPHeaderField:headerValue];

[NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];

As with all use of credentials, please make sure you are doing this all over HTTPS because these credentials are essentially being passed in clear text.