RestSharp HttpBasicAuthentication - example

Question

I have a WPF client using RestSharp and WEB API Service. I try to use HttpBasicAuthenticator as follows:

RestRequest login = new RestRequest(\"/         


        

Answer 1

Alternative answer your first question about retrieval of Auth Header values (Server Side) from How can I retrieve Basic Authentication credentials from the header?:

private UserLogin GetUserLoginCredentials()
{
    HttpContext httpContext = HttpContext.Current;
    UserLogin userLogin;
    string authHeader = httpContext.Request.Headers["Authorization"];

    if (authHeader != null && authHeader.StartsWith("Basic"))
    {
        string encodedUsernamePassword = authHeader.Substring("Basic ".Length).Trim();
        Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
        string usernamePassword = encoding.GetString(Convert.FromBase64String(encodedUsernamePassword));
        int seperatorIndex = usernamePassword.IndexOf(':');

        userLogin = new UserLogin()
        {
            Username = usernamePassword.Substring(0, seperatorIndex),
            Password = usernamePassword.Substring(seperatorIndex + 1)
        };
    }
    else
    {
        //Handle what happens if that isn't the case
        throw new Exception("The authorization header is either empty or isn't Basic.");
    }
    return userLogin;
}

Usage of this method might be:

UserLogin userLogin = GetUserLoginCredentials();

Also have a look at: A-WebAPI-Basic-Authentication-Authorization-Filter

Alternative answer on second question about returning the token (Server Side):

var httpResponseMessage = Request.CreateResponse();

TokenResponse tokenResponse;
bool wasAbleToGetAccesToken = _identityServerHelper.TryGetAccessToken(userLogin.Username, userLogin.Password,
            platform, out tokenResponse);

httpResponseMessage.StatusCode = wasAbleToGetAccesToken ? HttpStatusCode.OK : HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized;
httpResponseMessage.Content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(tokenResponse),
            System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

return httpResponseMessage;