Generating base64-encoded Authorization headers in a variety of languages

example.cs

httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = 
    new AuthenticationHeaderValue(
        "Basic", 
        Convert.ToBase64String(
            System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(
                string.Format("{0}:{1}", username, password))));

example.php

$header = "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($username . ':' . $password);

example.py

base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('\n', '')
header = ("Authorization: Basic %s" % base64string)   

example.rb

$header = 'Authorization: Basic ' + Base64.encode64( username + ':' + password ).chomp

jquery.js

$.ajax
({
  type: "GET",
  url: "https://www.example.com",
  dataType: 'json',
  headers: {
    "Authorization", btoa(username + ":" + password)
  },
  data: '{}',
  success: function (){
   ...
  }
});

node.js

var username = 'Test';
var password = '123';
var auth = 'Basic ' + new Buffer(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');

var header = {'Host': 'www.example.com', 'Authorization': auth};
var request = client.request('GET', '/', header);

Better Perl (avoid line breaks):

'Authorization: Basic ' . MIME::Base64::encode("$username:$password", '')

https://gist.github.com/brandonmwest/a2632d0a65088a20c00a#gistcomment-2345632

PowerShell

$username = 'test'
$password = 'password'
$base64AuthInfo = [convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1} -f $username, $password")))
$base64AuthInfo

This in incorrect, the enclosing double quote should be after {1}, not $password.

$username = 'test'
$password = 'password'
$base64AuthInfo = [convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username, $password)))
$base64AuthInfo

In Free Pascal:

uses base64;

header := EncodeStringBase64(Concat(username, ':', password));

in Golang:

client := &http.Client{}
request, err := http.NewRequest("POST","https://example.com", nil)

encodedCredential := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET)))
request.Header.Add("Authorization", fmt.Sprintf("Basic %s", sEnc))

Line 7 correction for jquery snippet: "Authorization", "Basic " + btoa(username + ":" + password)

PowerShell

$username = 'test'
$password = 'password'
$base64AuthInfo = [convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1} -f $username, $password")))
$base64AuthInfo

The code above doesn't work. Below is the fix.

$username = 'test'
$password = 'password'
$base64AuthInfo = [convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("${username}:${password}")))
$base64AuthInfo

Scala:

val bytesFromString = (username ++ ":" ++ password).getBytes("UTF-8")
val urlAuth = "Basic " ++ Base64.encode(bytesFromString)

The right scala implementation which run directly :

  val tokenBytes = s"$username:$password".getBytes("UTF-8")
  val tokenB64 = new String(java.util.Base64.getEncoder.encode(tokenBytes))
  val token = s"Basic $tokenB64"

in JQuery, aren't we missing the 'Basic ' prefix?