ServiceStack JsonServiceClient send basic instead of Basic for Authorization header - authorization

Question

I am using the JsonServiceClient client to talk to a RESTful service hosted on IIS 7 by an external vendor.
Here is some sample code I am using to call their Get method.
ServiceStack.ServiceClient.Web.JsonServiceClient client = new ServiceStack.ServiceClient.Web.JsonServiceClient("UrlToVendor"));
client.SetCredentials("userName", "password");
client.AlwaysSendBasicAuthHeader = true;
DTOReturn result = client.Get<DTOReturn>(string.Empty);
I always get an authorization failure. We put a sniffer and the Authorization header is being sent as:
basic userName:password
instead of
Basic userName:password
We were able to use standard .Net calls to get it to work
System.Net.HttpWebRequest req = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(
"UrlToVendor");
string authInfo = "userName:password";
authInfo = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(authInfo));
req.Accept = "application/json"; //text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
req.PreAuthenticate = true;
req.Method = "GET";
req.Headers["Authorization"] = string.Format("Basic {0}", authInfo);
System.Net.HttpWebResponse res = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
And these standard calls failed the same as the JasonServiceClient if we changed "Basic" to "basic".
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Looks like someone had the same problem. This recent commit changed the auth-scheme from "basic" to "Basic". https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/commit/d4f21c5355ab87d7315e142372eef9a40e096b5f
You should be able to just update your dlls.
According to RFC 2617 sec 1.2 the auth-scheme is case-insensitive.
See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945#page-47. I would be curious as to why the vendor service won't accept it.