HttpClient and Basic Auth in URL

Question

I'd like to use HttpClient and HTTP basic auth by specifying username and password in the URL, like this:

var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, 
    "https://username:[email protected]");

using (var client = new HttpClient()) {
    await client.SendAsync(request);
}

However there is no Authorization header sent with the request.

Is there a way to tell HttpClient to support this, or do I have to manually fetch the credentials from the URL and set the headers myself?

Answer 1

You need to set the header instead of passing it through the URL

var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("username:password1234");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));