Question

I am trying to consume a third party service like this:

 var context = new DataSource(new Uri("http://api.olr.com/Service.svc"));

 context.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "http://api.olr.com/Service.svc");


 var agents = from a in context.Agents
                     select a;

 tbResponse.Text = agents.FirstOrDefault().ToString();

but getting reponse:

<div class="content-container"><fieldset>
 <h2>401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.</h2>
 <h3>You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.</h3>
</fieldset></div>
</div>

I tried to access the service using browser and it is working.

third parameter to following line is domain. what to put in domain ? the Service url as i did ?

context.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "http://api.olr.com/Service.svc");

Answer 1

The NetworkCredential constructor is expecting username, password and domain but you are passing in the full Url instead of the domain.

I would change that line to:

context.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "olr.com");

UPDATE – Solution that worked:

context.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");

Was the solution.