System.Net.WebClient fails weirdly

Question

I am trying to download some data from the reporting services instance on our TFS server.
Given that the code should run on a computer that is not domain-joined, I figured t

Answer 1

What happens when you use this?

wc.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

Also, are you sure you have the correct username, password and domain?

Also: I wonder if Fiddler is changing around some unicode characters when .net breaks them or something like that. If your user/pass/domain has unicode, try escaping it out like "\u2638" instead of "☺".