Question HTTP authorization header

[erics44]

Hi
Does anyone know how to pass credentials in the HTTP authorization header using basic authentication semantics?


Thanks in advance

 

[JohnH]

If you mean for a Http request have a look at these:
HttpWebRequest.Credentials Property (System.Net)
WebClient.Credentials Property (System.Net)

If you mean setting the transport level authentication for a web service request there are similar Credentials/ClientCredentials properties for this with the service proxy (inherits SoapHttpClientProtocol or ClientBase(Of TChannel)).

 

[erics44]

If you mean for a Http request have a look at these:
HttpWebRequest.Credentials Property (System.Net)
WebClient.Credentials Property (System.Net)

If you mean setting the transport level authentication for a web service request there are similar Credentials/ClientCredentials properties for this with the service proxy (inherits SoapHttpClientProtocol or ClientBase(Of TChannel)).

thanks for the reply

it is HTTP basic authentication i am looking for

 

[erics44]

If you mean for a Http request have a look at these:
HttpWebRequest.Credentials Property (System.Net)
WebClient.Credentials Property (System.Net)

If you mean setting the transport level authentication for a web service request there are similar Credentials/ClientCredentials properties for this with the service proxy (inherits SoapHttpClientProtocol or ClientBase(Of TChannel)).

having read through the http requests it doesnt actually tell me anywhere how to set the username and password

could you help?

thanks a lot

 

[JohnH]

The remarks section explains how it is normally used, with a link to NetworkCredential help topic if you want to assign a custom credentials object, that page has a code sample for this also. You can also use this NetworkCredential Constructor (String, String) (System.Net) and as shown in that code sample assign the NetworkCredential object directly.

 

[erics44]

thanks again for taking the time

I think the issue im having is that there is no example code to say

credentials.service = "http://webservice"
credentials.username= "username"
credentials.password = "password"

 

[JohnH]

I don't know what you mean by that. All you should need to do is this for service references:

proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "user"
proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "pass"

or this for web references:

Dim proxy As New localhost.Service
proxy.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("user", "pass")

When such a NetworkCredential object is assigned these credentials are passed to any url and authentication type that requires it. CredentialCache object can be used if you want to, but it is not necessary, it's primary purpose is to be able to add different credentials for different urls/auths to the same request object, it can also be used to hide credentials from any service that is not the target of those credentials. You can easily verify this by using the GetCredential method that is available from either of those classes, return value is:

The NetworkCredential that is associated with the specified URI and authentication type, or, if no credentials are available, a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

 

[erics44]

thanks again for the reply

if i go off your web refence code

is the localhost.service is the name of the web service?

so if my webservice was called webServiceService I would have

Dim proxy as new webServiceService
proxy.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("user", "pass")

?

and i can just put this in a page load event say and the credentials will be set?

 

[JohnH]

If you set the credentials for the object they stay, yes, for the lifetime of the object, there is no hidden unexpected events that could occur that would cause the object to suddenly loose its credentials.

 

[erics44]

thanks for the help