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05.15.2008 at 06:10PM PDT, ID: 23407176
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Basic authentication using System.Net.WebClient

Asked by DColin in Microsoft Visual Basic.Net

Hi Experts,

I am reading the HTML of a web page using the attached code. This works fine but when I try to connected via a proxy server the server asks for my username and password using basic authentication. How do I send this login info. using the attached code. Thanks.Start Free Trial 
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Dim MyWebClient As New System.Net.WebClient()
Dim MyStreamReader As System.IO.Stream
Dim MyStream As System.IO.StreamReader
 
MyStreamReader = MyWebClient.OpenRead("http://www.Domain.com/")
MyStream = New System.IO.StreamReader(MyStreamReader)
[+][-]05.15.2008 at 06:24PM PDT, ID: 21579171

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