HTTP Basic Authentication using NSURLSession in swift

basic-auth.swift

import Foundation

let config = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
let userPasswordString = "username@gmail.com:password"
let userPasswordData = userPasswordString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
let base64EncodedCredential = userPasswordData!.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(nil)
let authString = "Basic \(base64EncodedCredential)"
config.HTTPAdditionalHeaders = ["Authorization" : authString]
let session = NSURLSession(configuration: config)

var running = false
let url = NSURL(string: "https://example.com/api/v1/records.json")
let task = session.dataTaskWithURL(url) {
  (let data, let response, let error) in
    if let httpResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse {
      let dataString = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
      println(dataString)
    }
  running = false
}

running = true
task.resume()

while running {
  println("waiting...")
  sleep(1)
}