Question

Right now I have a silverlight app that gets data from a mvc site. As long as I use WebClient and to GET requests, everything seems to be okay. However, when I use HttpWebRequest and POST, then I am getting authentication problems.

The problems stem from the request lacking the .ASPXAUTH cookie.

Does anyone know how to solve or work around this?

Answer 1

write following code before making HttpWebRequest object.

System.Net.WebRequest.RegisterPrefix(“http://”, WebRequestCreator.BrowserHttp);
System.Net.WebRequest.RegisterPrefix(“https://”, WebRequestCreator.BrowserHttp);

and then create the HttpWebRequest object.

// Create request
HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.CreateHttp(“http://zainshaikh.posterous.com/”);

Hope this helps.