network Authentication and website Authentication using HttpWebRequest

Question

I am trying to create a application that will consume RSS data using .NET Framework. The RSS site requires User name and Password to start with. and Am running this applicat

Answer 1

If this code works, then your original code above was wrong. You should set

request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

and

NetworkCredential nc = new NetworkCredential("SITEUSERNAME", "SITEPASSWORD");
CredentialCache cache = new CredentialCache();
cache.Add(new Uri(RSSFeed), "Basic", nc);
cache.Add(new Uri(RSSFeed), "Ntlm", new NetworkCredential("USERNAME","PASSWORD","DOAMIN"));
HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(RSSFeed);
myHttpWebRequest.Credentials = cache;

In other words, you had exchanged credentials for the proxy and the destination server.

Answer 2

solved the issue by using following code

 string credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes("UserName" + ":" + "Password"));
 StringBuilder outputData = new StringBuilder();
 HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(RSSFeed);
 myHttpWebRequest.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
 myHttpWebRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials);
 HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();
 Stream streamResponse = myHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream();