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/ basic-auth.swift
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July 20, 2014 21:45
HTTP Basic Authentication using NSURLSession in swift
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| 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) |
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