Experimental implementation of HTTP Basic auth helper in AFRestClient

AFNetworking/AFRestClient.h

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 - (NSString *)defaultValueForHeader:(NSString *)header;
 - (void)setDefaultHeader:(NSString *)header value:(NSString *)value;
+- (void)setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:(NSString *)username password:(NSString *)password;
 - (void)setAuthorizationHeaderWithToken:(NSString *)token;
 - (void)clearAuthorizationHeader;
 

AFNetworking/AFRestClient.m

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 #import "AFRestClient.h"
 #import "AFJSONRequestOperation.h"
 
+#import "NSData+AFNetworking.h"
+
 static NSStringEncoding const kAFRestClientStringEncoding = NSUTF8StringEncoding;
 
 @interface AFRestClient ()
@@ -86,6 +88,12 @@ static NSStringEncoding const kAFRestClientStringEncoding = NSUTF8StringEncoding
 	[self.defaultHeaders setObject:value forKey:header];
 }
 
+- (void)setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:(NSString *)username password:(NSString *)password {
+	NSString *authHeader = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", username, password];
+    NSString *encodedAuthHeader = [[NSData dataWithBytes:[authHeader UTF8String] length:[authHeader length]] base64EncodedString];
+    [self setDefaultHeader:@"Authorization" value:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Basic %@", encodedAuthHeader]];
+}
+
 - (void)setAuthorizationHeaderWithToken:(NSString *)token {
     [self setDefaultHeader:@"Authorization" value:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Token token=\"%@\"", token]];
 }

AFNetworking/NSData+AFNetworking.h

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ extern NSString * const kAFZlibErrorDomain;
 
 @interface NSData (AFNetworking)
 
+- (NSString *)base64EncodedString;
 - (NSData *)dataByGZipCompressingWithError:(NSError **)error;
 - (NSData *)dataByGZipDecompressingDataWithError:(NSError **)error;
 

AFNetworking/NSData+AFNetworking.m

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 
 NSString * const kAFZlibErrorDomain = @"com.alamofire.zlib.error";
 
+static char Base64EncodingTable[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
+
 static inline NSUInteger NSDataEstimatedCompressedLength(NSData *data) {
     return [data length] / 2;
 }
@@ -88,6 +90,33 @@ typedef enum {
 
 @implementation NSData (AFNetworking)
 
+- (NSString *)base64EncodedString {
+    NSUInteger length = [self length];
+    NSMutableData *mutableData = [NSMutableData dataWithLength:((length + 2) / 3) * 4];
+    
+    uint8_t *input = (uint8_t *)[self bytes];
+    uint8_t *output = (uint8_t *)[mutableData mutableBytes];
+    
+    for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < length; i += 3) {
+        NSUInteger value = 0;
+        for (NSUInteger j = i; j < (i + 3); j++) {
+            value <<= 8;
+            
+            if (j < length) {
+                value |= (0xFF & input[j]); 
+            }
+        }
+        
+        NSInteger idx = (i / 3) * 4;
+        output[idx + 0] =                    Base64EncodingTable[(value >> 18) & 0x3F];
+        output[idx + 1] =                    Base64EncodingTable[(value >> 12) & 0x3F];
+        output[idx + 2] = (i + 1) < length ? Base64EncodingTable[(value >> 6)  & 0x3F] : '=';
+        output[idx + 3] = (i + 2) < length ? Base64EncodingTable[(value >> 0)  & 0x3F] : '=';
+    }
+    
+    return [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:mutableData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding] autorelease];
+}
+
 - (NSData *)dataByGZipCompressingWithError:(NSError **)error {
     return [NSData dataByTransformingData:self usingGZipOperation:GzipDeflate error:error];
 }