HttpListener: how to get http user and password?

Question

I\'m facing a problem here, with HttpListener.

When a request of the form

http://user:password@example.com/

is made, how can I get the

Answer 1

Get the Authorization header. It's format is as follows

Authorization:  

Example:

Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==

The username and password is colon-seperated (in this example, Aladdin:open sesame), then B64-encoded.