Adding Authorization Header to Web Reference

Question

I\'m attempting to make requests to a client\'s web service (I don\'t know the underlying platform at the client). I\'ve consumed the client\'s WSDL in Visual Studio 2010 using

Answer 1

The above response was on the right track, but it just had to be in a different location.

I added this to my web reference proxy class that .Net generated:

protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri)
    {
        HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)base.GetWebRequest(uri);            
        req.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Authorization,
                "Basic " + "12345678901234567890");

        return req;
    }

A Web Reference proxy class extends System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol. This class contains a call to System.Net.WebRequest.GetWebRequest(Uri uri). A WebRequest allow us to set specific headers on the request when the proxy class' methods are invoked.

Thanks for your help!