How can i open a url in web browser (such as IE) and pass credentials

Question

I want to open a page that required Basic authentication. I want to pass the Basic authentication header to the browser along with the URL.

How can i do that?

Answer 1

Via a header you can:

string user = "uuuuuuu";
string pass = "ppppppp";
string authHdr = "Authorization: Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(user + ":" + pass)) + "\r\n";

webBrowserCtl.Navigate("http://example.com", null, null, authHdr);

given that this needs to be done on a per-request basis, an easier option for basic auth is to just;

webBrowserCtl.Navigate("http://uuuuuuu:ppppppp@example.com", null, null, authHdr);