More libcurl Madness; HTTP basic authentication with libcurl

This is getting worse, I am playing with curl more than I should be. This time, I would like to show a snippet of code that demonstrate basic http authentication. You might want to take a look at my previous code for the complete listing. The following code fetches the last 20 direct messages from your twitter.

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		curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
		std::string sAuth("");
		sAuth += sUser + ":" + sPass;
		hCurl = curl_easy_init();
		hResult = curl_easy_setopt(hCurl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/direct_messages.xml");
		hResult = curl_easy_setopt(hCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
		hResult = curl_easy_setopt(hCurl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, sAuth.c_str());
		hResult = curl_easy_perform(hCurl);
		if(CURLE_OK != hResult) {
			std::cout << "May be twitter is on a whale hunt" << std::endl;
		}
		curl_easy_cleanup(hCurl);
		curl_global_cleanup();

I can justify why I had decided to post it. I had tried with base64 encoding to convert a user/password and add it as a custom header field in the curl call. Had I had it known that libcurl supports basic authentication out of the box, I would have saved lot of time. I am sure there would be some hapless soul like me, that would head down my route. Who knows, may be I would completely forget about this and try the same path again. But; sure next time, I hope google will land me on my own blog.

Tagged as: C++, libcurl