Web API Scripting Help

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Basic authentication is one (somewhat outdated) style of authentication. Most external services won't actually support it. Commonly, web APIs will allow users to generate some kind of long-lived token, and then require that token be passed in an authentication header - with httpClient, that would look something like this:

client = system.net.httpClient()

headers = {
	"Authorization": "Bearer %s" % token
}

response = client.post("url", headers=headers)

Or for a more complete example of wrapping a web API:

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