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Powershell - basic auth in Authorization header

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By Julius Gamanyi
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Given a username and password, how do I add them as encoded values in a HTTP header when making a webservice call with Invoke-RestMethod ?

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$user = "User"
$password = "S3cr3t"
$pair = "$($user):$($password)"

$encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair))

$basicAuthValue = "Basic $encodedCreds"

$Headers = @{ 
    Authorization = $basicAuthValue 
}
$Uri = "https://example.com/path"
Invoke-RestMethod -UseBasicParsing -Headers $headers -Method GET -Uri $Uri

References

  • Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27951845
powershell invoke-webrequest
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