Question

This is my first attempt at creating a console app which can make a HTTP GET request and print the response to the console.

Thus far, the code works, but only for URIs which do not require a username/password.

My ultimate purpose is to use a cloud/hosting API which accepts HTTP GET requests as triggers for taking certain actions. As such, I have to use a username/password for this.

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace HttpTestProject {

    class Program {

        static void Main(string[] args) {

            Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.google.com");
            string username = "asdf";
            string password = "asdf";

            NetworkCredential cred = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
            CredentialCache cache = new CredentialCache();
            cache.Add(uri, "Basic", cred);

            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();

            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(resStream);
            string text = reader.ReadToEnd();

            Console.WriteLine(text);
            Console.ReadLine();

        }

    }

}

Answer 1

If you have to add basic authentication to your request without waiting for a challenge you can append the header manually:

var request = WebRequest.Create("http://myserver.com/service");
string authInfo = userName + ":" + userPassword;
authInfo = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(authInfo));

//like this:
request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authInfo;

var response = request.GetResponse();