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)
}

Tnx! 👍

Found this after looking for about two hours. You legend.

Thank you very much for this gist.

Using Xcode 7 beta 5 (Swift 2), base64EncodedStringWithOptions(nil) gives an error "Cannot invoke 'base64EncodedStringWithOptions' with an argument list of type '(nil)'"

but the following worked for me:
let base64EncodedCredential = userPasswordData!.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(NSDataBase64EncodingOptions(rawValue:0))

This gist and kenl97216's comment are examples of why I love Github.

Finally this worked!

@n8armstrong:
Everyone seemed to like your code. Question: what does your main thread/code do during your while loop? i.e. what is experienced by the user during the process of waiting for url response
thanks

rayraj the session data task is an asynchronous network call. If there is not a loop waiting for a network response the code would immediately execute to normal completion. The network response is received by the completionHandler of the session data task. The user sees "waiting..." in the console log until the completionHandler prints out a dataString and resets the loop condition for normal completion.

You are my hero. Thank you for this solution. Nice, clear, working.

Thank you! This help saved me :)

👍 tnx

Hallo is there a Update with Swift 3 ?

How/where can I set http method (GET,POST)?

Hallo is there a Update with Swift 3 ?

It would be very useful for me to upgrade to Swift 3 ....

how to make get request json if i have token key and secret ?

Hi,
I ported the code to Swift4 in XCode9 since this example wasn't working anymore.

https://gist.github.com/temal-/71ae8b6bf89d33c5ad101dfbae2fc3d9

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