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@armstrongnate
armstrongnate / basic-auth.swift
Created July 20, 2014 21:45
HTTP Basic Authentication using NSURLSession in swift
import Foundation
let config = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
let userPasswordString = "[email protected]:password"
let userPasswordData = userPasswordString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
let base64EncodedCredential = userPasswordData!.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(nil)
let authString = "Basic \(base64EncodedCredential)"
config.HTTPAdditionalHeaders = ["Authorization" : authString]
let session = NSURLSession(configuration: config)
@joeytwiddle
joeytwiddle / async-await-forEach-alternatives.md
Last active November 13, 2024 13:53
Do not use forEach with async-await

Do not use forEach with async-await

TLDR: Use for...of instead of forEach() in asynchronous code.

For legacy browsers, use for...i or [].reduce()

To execute the promises in parallel, use Promise.all([].map(...))

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