Resetting basic authentication credentials with AFNetworking

Question

I am writing a REST client (with AFNetworking) and need the ability to trigger the creation of a new session within a single instance of an application.

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Answer 1

Even simpler.

[request setHTTPShouldHandleCookies:NO];

Answer 2

Rest calls as far as I know are not session based. Meaning you can't simulate an authentication and log-out session in a particular call. What I think you can do is to Authenticate for every call made to the end point. So for every end point(Method), you authenticate the caller. I think that's the bets you can do in a restful system.

Answer 3

Use AFHTTPClient (see the API client in the example project).

Credentials can be set with -setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:password:. Each request created from that HTTP client will have an Authorization HTTP header, kind of like a browser session.

When the user logs out, or you want to clear credentials, do -clearAuthorizationHeader.