Question

I am trying to make a cURL call to download a CSV file and I’m getting back the login page html. Here is the code:

WebRequest myRequest = WebRequest.Create("https://website.com/medias/823533/events.csv");
        myRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
        myRequest.Method = "GET";
        myRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;
        // Return the response. 
        WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse();
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(myResponse.GetResponseStream());
        string result = sr.ReadToEnd();
        sr.Close();
        Console.WriteLine(result);
        Console.ReadLine();

Is there a simple cURL method in C#? This doesn’t seem to be working no matter what I try.

Answer 1

I found the issue. Apparently the request fails when you pass an “@” sign ( like in the email username ) in the username field so it must be Converted to a base 64 string. Here is the code just incase someone else runs into this:

        string url = "https://website.com/events.csv";
        WebRequest myReq = WebRequest.Create(url);

        string username = "username";
        string password = "password";
        string usernamePassword = username + ":" + password;
        CredentialCache mycache = new CredentialCache();
        mycache.Add(new Uri(url), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(username, password));
        myReq.Credentials = mycache;
        myReq.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(usernamePassword)));

        WebResponse wr = myReq.GetResponse();
        Stream receiveStream = wr.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
        string content = reader.ReadToEnd();
        Console.WriteLine(content);
        Console.ReadLine();