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Kieron Moran

04 Nov, 2012 04:38 PM

Hello,

I would like to create a .net integration and would like to know how to format the web request with the api key and password.

At present, all I get is the rather annoying 401 Unauthorized.

Any pointers or sample .net code would be great.

Thanks in advance,

Kieron

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Glen on 04 Nov, 2012 08:14 PM

   

   Hi Kieron,

   Thanks for reaching out. The Handshake API uses HTTP Basic Authentication (as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) in the same format as the 37 Signals APIs.

   We do not use .NET internally here, so I won't be able to provide you with any .NET sample code, but most frameworks provide some kind of library for putting basic auth headers on a HTTP request.

   If not, the Python code below should help illuminate how to form the HTTP header that our API ultimately expects to be on your request:

   # We use api key as username, dummy 'x' as password
   apiKey = "abcd1234abcd1234"
   userAndPass = apiKey + ":x"
   
   # HTTP basic auth must be encoded to base 64
   encodedUserAndPass = userAndPass.encode( "base64" )
   httpAuthHeader = "Authorization: Basic " + encodedUserAndPass
   

   Hope that helps!

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2. Glen closed this discussion on 04 Nov, 2012 08:15 PM.

3. Kieron Moran re-opened this discussion on 04 Nov, 2012 10:17 PM

4. 3 Posted by Kieron Moran on 04 Nov, 2012 10:17 PM

   

   Hi Glen,

   Thats an awesome answer. Thanks very much.

   It was the base64 encoding I failed on :-(

   Kieron

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5. Mike closed this discussion on 05 Nov, 2012 05:50 PM.

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