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SteveBower Http Request, Authentication Errors
A small note I'll toss up here because I ran into it. This is just informational.
The few lines of sample code for an HttpRequest call using a username/password was nice to have in the documentation. It was just what I needed, and it was already done for me. No thinking required. :-)
Blob headerValue = Blob.valueOf(username + ':' + password);
String authorizationHeader = 'BASIC ' +
EncodingUtil.base64Encode(headerValue);
req.setHeader('Authorization', authorizationHeader);
However, I was integrating with a service which has strictly implemented basic authentication and thus they deny the string "BASIC" and require the string "Basic" which is what I believe is in the Spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617. Of course they didn't document that anywhere.
So, I post this just because if someone else had posted it I wouldn't have wasted an hour making sure every other darn thing was perfect before I figured this out.
Hope it helps someone, Steve.
This was exactly what I needed when trying to consume a SOAP web service without using the WSDL generation tool. Thanks!