* [Basic Authentication](#basic-authentication)

* [Body Data](#body-data)

* [Entity Bodies](#entity-bodies)

* [JSON Patch Bodies](#json-patch-bodies)

* [Basic Forms](#basic-forms)

* [File Uploads](#file-uploads)

* [Object Mappers](#object-mappers)

Request headers can be added with the ```header``` method.

Unirest.get("http://httpbin.org")

.header("Accept", "application/json")

.header("x-custom-header", "hello")

Unirest exposes a shortcut for doing basic auth when you need to. Unirest handles the Base64 encoding part.

Please make sure you are always doing this over HTTPS!

Unirest.get("http://httpbin.org")

.basicAuth("user", "password1!")

.asString();

Unirest has full native support for JSON Patch requests (RFC-6902 see http://jsonpatch.com/)

Unirest.jsonPatch(MockServer.PATCH)

.add("/fruits/-", "Apple")

.remove("/bugs")

.replace("/lastname", "Flintstone")

.test("/firstname", "Fred")

.move("/old/location", "/new/location")

.copy("/original/location", "/new/location")

.asJson();

will send a request with a body of

[

{"op":"add","path":"/fruits/-","value":"Apple"},

{"op":"remove","path":"/bugs"},

{"op":"replace","path":"/lastname","value":"Flintstone"},

{"op":"test","path":"/firstname","value":"Fred"},

{"op":"move","path":"/new/location","from":"/old/location"},

{"op":"copy","path":"/new/location","from":"/original/location"}

]

Basic http name value body params can be passed with simple field calls.

The ```Content-Type``` for this type of request is defaulted to ```application/x-www-form-urlencoded```

The ```Content-Type``` for this type of request is defaulted to ```multipart/form-data```

Unirest.post("http://httpbin.org")

.field("upload", new File("/MyFile.zip"))

.asEmpty();

For large files you may want to use a InputStream. Pass it a file name if you want one.

We are using a FileInputStream here but it can actually be any kind of InputStream.

InputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("/MyFile.zip"));

Unirest.post("http://httpbin.org")

});

Previous versions of unirest had configuration split across several different places. Sometimes it was done on ```Unirest```, sometimes it was done on ```Option```, sometimes it was somewhere else.

All configuration is now done through ```Unirest.config()```