Basic authentication with Qt (QNetworkAccessManager)
I was trying to perform basic authentication for Twitter from my Qt app. I use QNetworkAccessManager. But I couldn't find any help on this.
But I found a program called qsoapmanager which passes credentials in base64 through the header. Maybe I can do this with QNAM by setting header in QNetowrkRequest. But I failed to find a way.
In qsoapman source, header is set like this:
QHttpRequestHeader header;
header.setValue( "Authorization", QString( "Basic " ).append( auth.data() ) );
Can I do just that with QNAM/QNReq or is there a better way?
Answer
But if you want to do it by just setting the header value, here's how you can do that:
// HTTP Basic authentication header value: base64(username:password)
QString concatenated = username + ":" + password;
QByteArray data = concatenated.toLocal8Bit().toBase64();
QString headerData = "Basic " + data;
request.setRawHeader("Authorization", headerData.toLocal8Bit());