Experiencing an issue when authenticating with Basic Auth. I am using a standard enum that conforms to URLRequestConvertible
protocol to construct my requests. The issue is that when I manually set the authorization headers in the enum like so:
let user = ***
let password = ***
let credentialData = "\(user):\(password)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
let base64Credentials = credentialData.base64EncodedStringWithOptions([])
mutableURLRequest.setValue("Basic \(base64Credentials)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
I always get a 401 unauthorized response. However if I set the password using the authenticate
callback like so:
Alamofire.request(request)
.authenticate(user: "USERNAME_HERE", password: "PASSWORD_HERE")
.responseJSON { (response) -> Void in
print("JSON response \(response)")
completion(success: true, error: nil)
}
It authenticates properly. I would like to be able to set it manually in the enum conforming to URLRequestConvertible
instead of passing in the credentials in authenticate
.
I know it's using a NSURLCredential
under the hood for auth challenges but I would like to be able to set it manually.
Here is my URLRequestConvertible
implementation :
enum CheckedUpAPI: URLRequestConvertible {
static let baseURLString = "https://***"
static let APIKey = "***"
static let APIClientName = "iPad"
case UpdatePatient(String, [String: AnyObject])
var method: Alamofire.Method {
switch self {
case .UpdatePatient:
return .PATCH
}
}
var path: String {
switch self {
case .UpdatePatient(let patientID, _):
return "patients/\(patientID)"
}
}
// MARK: URLRequestConvertible
var URLRequest: NSMutableURLRequest {
let URL = NSURL(string: CheckedUpAPI.baseURLString)!
let mutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: URL.URLByAppendingPathComponent(path))
mutableURLRequest.HTTPMethod = method.rawValue
/**
We are not setting any authorization headers since they requests return 401
the `authenticate` function on Alamofire.request does the trick
let user = "[email protected]"
let password = "test"
let credentialData = "\(user):\(password)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
let base64Credentials = credentialData.base64EncodedStringWithOptions([])
mutableURLRequest.setValue("Basic \(base64Credentials)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
*/
mutableURLRequest.setValue(CheckedUpAPI.APIKey, forHTTPHeaderField: "API-Key")
switch self {
case .UpdatePatient(_, let parameters):
return Alamofire.ParameterEncoding.JSON.encode(mutableURLRequest, parameters: parameters).0
}
}
}
In swift 3.0
Use following code -
let user = ***
let password = ***
let credentialData = "\(user):\(password)".data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!
let base64Credentials = credentialData.base64EncodedString(options: [])
let headers = ["Authorization": "Basic \(base64Credentials)"]
Alamofire.request(customerURL,
method: .get,
parameters: nil,
encoding: URLEncoding.default,
headers:headers)
.validate()
.responseJSON { response in
if response.result.value != nil{
print(response)
}else{
}
}