Question

How do I pass username and password to an HttpWebRequest in Silverlight 4.

since the HttpWebRequst class in silverlight does not implement Credentials property, therefore i am unable to authenticate my user.

one way I found was, to pass credentials in header using Authorization header, but it requires ASCII encoded value, which is not supported in Silverlight.

any other alternatives???

Answer 1

thanks, I got the solution, I had to write following line before creating the WebRequest object. 🙂

WebRequest.RegisterPrefix(“http://”:, WebRequestCreator.ClientHttp);