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

There are a couple of changes to make.

Firstly, there is a handy constant HttpRequestHeader.Authorization.

Secondly, are they expecting the header to be Base64 Encoded - this is normally required for basic authentication.

WebClient.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Authorization, 
    "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes("12345678901234567890")));