Making a web request to a web page which requires windows authentication

Question

I am trying to make a request to a web page using WebRequest class in .net. The url that I am trying to read requires Windows Authentication due to which I get an unauthoris

Answer 1

You should use Credentials property to pass the windows credentials to the web service.

If you wish to pass current windows user's credentials to the service then

request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

should do the trick. Otherwise use NetworkCredential as follows:

request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(user, pwd, domain);