HttpWebRequest using Basic authentication

Question

You can also just add the authorization header yourself.

Just make the name "Authorization" and the value "Basic BASE64({USERNAME:PASSWORD})"

var username   = "abc";
var password   = "123";
string encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1")
                               .GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);

Edit

Switched the encoding from UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 per What encoding should I use for HTTP Basic Authentication? and Jeroen's comment.

I finally got it!

string url = @"https://telematicoprova.agenziadogane.it/TelematicoServiziDiUtilitaWeb/ServiziDiUtilitaAutServlet?UC=22&SC=1&ST=2";
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Credentials = GetCredential();
request.PreAuthenticate = true;

and this is GetCredential()

private CredentialCache GetCredential()
{
    string url = @"https://telematicoprova.agenziadogane.it/TelematicoServiziDiUtilitaWeb/ServiziDiUtilitaAutServlet?UC=22&SC=1&ST=2";
    ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;
    CredentialCache credentialCache = new CredentialCache();
    credentialCache.Add(new System.Uri(url), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ead_username"], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ead_password"]));
    return credentialCache;
}

YAY!

If you can use the WebClient class, using basic authentication becomes simple:

var client = new WebClient {Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user_name", "password")};
var response = client.DownloadString("https://telematicoprova.agenziadogane.it/TelematicoServiziDiUtilitaWeb/ServiziDiUtilitaAutServlet?UC=22&SC=1&ST=2");

Try this:

System.Net.CredentialCache credentialCache = new System.Net.CredentialCache(); 
credentialCache.Add(
    new System.Uri("http://www.yoururl.com/"),
    "Basic", 
    new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password")
);

...
...

httpWebRequest.Credentials = credentialCache; 

For those using RestSharp, it might fail when using SimpleAuthenticator (possibly due to not using ISO-8859-1 behind the scene). I managed to get it done by explicitly sending Basic Authentication headers:

string username = "...";
string password = "...";

public IRestResponse GetResponse(string url, Method method = Method.GET)
{
    string encoded = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes($"{username}:{password}"));
    var client = new RestClient(url);
    var request = new RestRequest(method );
    request.AddHeader("Authorization", $"Basic {encoded}");
    IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
    return response;
}

var response = GetResponse(url);
txtResult.Text = response.Content;