system.net.credentialcache.defaultcredentials is always empty in MOSS 2007 webpart

Question

I am trying to pass user credential to a webservice using

system.net.credentialcache.defaultcredentials inside MOSS 2007 webpart. But the credential shows always empty.I ma using integrated windows authentication

Answer 1

You will never see the credentials in debug. But they will be correctly passed to where they are needed. And when using anonymous authentication the client will not send the authentication header to be used. You need to set anonymous authentication disabled.

Answer 2

Are you expecting to extract the credentials? If yes, please see this -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.credentialcache.defaultcredentials.aspx

Here is what MSDN says - "The ICredentials instance returned by DefaultCredentials cannot be used to view the user name, password, or domain of the current security context."

However when you call the web service the API knows what it needs to do, so it will pass the credentials under which you are currently running.