Basic Authentication

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Perform a Basic HTTP Authenticationreqwestcat-authentication cat-network-programming

Perform a Basic HTTP Authentication

reqwest cat-network-programming cat-authentication

Uses reqwest::RequestBuilder::basic_auth to perform a basic HTTP authentication.

//! This example demonstrates how to use basic authentication with reqwest.

use reqwest::Error;
use reqwest::blocking::Client;

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
    // Create a new reqwest client.
    let client = Client::new();

    let user_name = "testuser".to_string();
    let password: Option<String> = None;

    let response = client
        .get("https://httpbin.org/")
        .basic_auth(user_name, password)
        .send();

    println!("{:?}", response);

    Ok(())
}

Related Topics

  • Cryptography.
  • Encryption.
  • Signatures.
  • Certificates.