Basic Authentication in iOS

Objective-C

• http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/basic_authentication_iphone_cocoa_touch (Bit dated - 2010 - Objective-C rather than Swift; well written up and includes code for Base64 encoding)
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973325/nsurlconnection-and-basic-http-authentication-in-ios

Swift

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24379601/how-to-make-an-http-request-basic-auth-in-swift

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