c# - RestSharp HttpBasicAuthentication - example

Question

I have a WPF client using RestSharp and WEB API Service. I try to use HttpBasicAuthenticator as follows:

RestRequest login = new RestRequest("/api/users/login", Method.POST);
var authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator("admin","22");
authenticator.Authenticate(Client, login);
IRestResponse response = Client.Execute(login); 

The POST request looks like this:

POST http://localhost/api/users/login HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46MjI=
Accept: application/json, application/xml, text/json, text/x-json, text/javascript, text/xml
User-Agent: RestSharp/105.1.0.0
Host: dellnote:810
Content-Length: 0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive

1. How do I process this field, Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46MjI= on the server side? Do I get username and password from this header?
2. How do I return security token from server to client and save it on the client side?

I need to get simple authentication based on security token but cannot find example that describes all sides of this process. Can someone point me to some full example that includes client and server side (and uses RestSharp).

Answer 1

new SimpleAuthenticator("username", username, "password", password) did NOT work with me.

The following however worked:

var client = new RestClient("http://example.com");
client.Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator(userName, password);

var request = new RestRequest("resource", Method.GET);
client.Execute(request);