Consuming REST web services with basic authentication

Last Updated on 20 October 2019 by Roberto De Pedrini It happens more and more often to come across the request of having to manage integrations with applications, potentially installed on any type of platform. On the one hand this kind of activity scares us a lot because we are all used to locally managing on our preferred server any known need and delegating the problem to third parts or other development languages but alas (or maybe luckily!) nowadays business informations systems are not based only on a single server and increasingly they also use hybrid systems with part of the applications executed locally and others distributed in the cloud or in remote sites. …