Forcing Basic Authentication in WebRequest

Question

I am integrating web service that will use an HTTP-POST to request and retrieve data. The remote server requires basic authentication as per RFC 2617

My attempts to

Answer 1

Improving a little bit on samuel-jack's accepted answer. Instead of using the default encoding "ISO-8859-1" should be used as mentioned in this answer What encoding should I use for HTTP Basic Authentication?

So the code would look like this:

public void SetBasicAuthHeader(WebRequest request, String userName, String userPassword)
{
    string authInfo = userName + ":" + userPassword;
    authInfo = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(authInfo));
    request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authInfo;
}