Objective-c HTTP Basic authentication

Question

How would i go about replicating this in objective-c

curl -u rick@email.com:mypassword http://foo.lighthouseapp.com/projects.xml

I\'ve been pla

Answer 1

From ASIHTTPRequest Documentation

With a Request Header

[request addRequestHeader:@"Authorization"
                    value:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Basic %@",
                           [ASIHTTPRequest base64forData:
                            [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", theUsername, thePassword]
                             dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]]];