RestSharp - Authorization Header not coming across to WCF REST service

Question

I am trying to call a locally hosted WCF REST service over HTTPS with basic auth.

This works and the Authorization header comes thru just fine and all is happy:

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = ValidateServerCertficate; var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://localhost/MyService/MyService.svc/"); request.Method = "GET"; request.ContentType = "application/json"; request.Headers.Add(   System.Net.HttpRequestHeader.Authorization,   "Basic " + this.EncodeBasicAuthenticationCredentials("UserA", "123"));  WebResponse webResponse = request.GetResponse(); using (Stream webStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream()) {     if (webStream != null)     {         using (StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(webStream))         {             string response = responseReader.ReadToEnd();         }     } } 

When I try to use RestSharp however, the Authorization header never comes thru on the request:

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = ValidateServerCertficate;  var credentials = this.EncodeBasicAuthenticationCredentials("UserA", "123");  var client = new RestSharp.RestClient("https://localhost/MyService/MyService.svc/");    var restRq = new RestSharp.RestRequest("/"); restRq.Method = Method.GET; restRq.RootElement = "/"; restRq.AddHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials); var restRs = client.Execute(restRq); 

What am i doing wrong with the RestSharp method?

I know that the AddHeader method works because this:

restRq.AddHeader("Rum", "And Coke"); 

will come thru, only "Authorization" seems stripped out/missing.

Answer 1

instead of adding the header 'manually' do the following:

var client = new RestSharp.RestClient("https://localhost/MyService/MyService.svc/"); client.Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator("UserA", "123"); 

Answer 2

I used milano's answer to get my REST service call to work (using GET)

    Dim client2 As RestClient = New RestClient("https://api.clever.com")      Dim request2 As RestRequest = New RestRequest("me", Method.GET)      request2.AddParameter("Authorization", "Bearer " & j.access_token, ParameterType.HttpHeader)      Dim response2 As IRestResponse = client2.Execute(request2)     Response.Write("** " & response2.StatusCode & "|" & response2.Content & " **") 

The key was making sure there was a space after the word 'Bearer' but this may apply to any type of custom token authorization header