How Do I Get By The Basic Authentication Handshake When Using Fiddler To Test A WCF REST Service?

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Peter picture Peter · Feb 9, 2011 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

How Do I Get By The Basic Authentication Handshake When Using Fiddler To Test A WCF REST Service?

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Darrel Miller picture Darrel Miller · Feb 10, 2011

You need to base64 encode your username:password and then prefix it with Basic. It will end up looking something like:

Authorization: Basic VEFWSVNcZGFycmVsOg==

You then enter this in the request headers field.

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