C# WebClient Credentials
Description
WebClient Credentials Gets or sets the network credentials
that are sent to the host and used to authenticate the request.
Syntax
WebClient.Credentials has the following syntax.
public ICredentials Credentials { get; set; }
Example
The following code example uses the user's system credentials to authenticate a request.
using System;/* w w w . j a v a2s . c om*/
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
public class Example
{
public static void Main()
{
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
Byte[] pageData = client.DownloadData("http://www.java2s.com");
string pageHtml = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(pageData);
Console.WriteLine(pageHtml);
}
}
The code above generates the following result.
