Virtually Jason

I've had the chance to work on some NSX-T scripting lately, as we work to integrate some other solutions with the tool.  I don't have a ton of experience with API access, but I have been slowly learning... and one of the big hurdles that I had to overcome was just figuring out how to authenticate with the system!  So, that's where I'm going to start here. First, let's talk about the basics of how authentication works when accessing the API.  To use Basic authentication, you need to put together your credentials in the format of "username:password" and pass them to NSX-T.  Since this is being passed through a web request and special characters could mess everything up, so you need to Base64 encode that authentication string.  Once you've got it encoded, you need to put that into the Headers of your requests so that NSX-T will know who you are.  So, let's look at how to actually do that process! First, I'm going to prepare two variables.  One wil

On my 3D Printing blog , I recently realized that Blogger made a change to the way that images are displayed.  It used to show the full size image when you clicked it, but it has changed to only show a slightly larger version of the image.  That has almost no impact on this blog since I rarely post images, but I frequently write tutorials that have screenshots from Blender or PrusaSlicer... and it's pretty important that the settings in those images be legible!  Well, some google-fu revealed an easy work-around; just change the href links to point to a different subfolder, so that the full resolution image will be displayed.  That's great, except that manually editing the HTML from my blog posts and changing the file path is a highly repetitive and boring task... well, you see where this is going.  PowerShell to the rescue! I've done a fair amount of string manipulation with PowerShell, so I thought this was going to be a trivial task... but this one had a bit of a wrinkle