iPhone: How to Get Basic Authentication to HTTPS Web Service Using NSURLCredential
- by ian1971
I am trying to call an https web service (RESTful) using basic authentication.
It works fine if I put the credentials in the url itself but I would rather add it to the request so that the password does not appear, for instance in an exception.
I am using the following code:
NSURLCredential *credential = [NSURLCredential credentialWithUser:@"myuser"
password:@"mypassword"
persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceForSession];
NSURLProtectionSpace *protectionSpace = [[NSURLProtectionSpace alloc]
initWithHost:@"example.com"
port:443
protocol:@"https"
realm:nil
authenticationMethod:NSURLAuthenticationMethodHTTPBasic];
[[NSURLCredentialStorage sharedCredentialStorage] setDefaultCredential:credential
forProtectionSpace:protectionSpace];
NSURLConnection *theConnection = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];
but it does not work. The didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge delegate method gets called and I can add a credential there but ideally I would send it with the request.
Any ideas?
