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I am using System.Xml.XmlTextReader to read xml stream from a http location. Now I need support to read from a secure https site. How can I do this by providing user credentials in some way?

awe
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Do you already have the relevant code to use WebClient or HttpWebRequest? That would be my starting point - make sure you can download the data appropriately, then just pass the response stream into XmlReader.Create(Stream).

You should be able to test the web part of things without parsing the XML - just print out the downloaded data to make sure it looks correct.

Jon Skeet
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  • No, I have just used `Dim reader As XmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader(sUri)`. How do I implement `WebClient` or `HttpWebRequest` easiest to achieve what I want? – awe Oct 19 '09 at 10:06
  • I don't have time to come up with full WebClient/WebRequest examples now, but there are plenty of them on the web, and I expect MSDN has some useful sample code too. – Jon Skeet Oct 19 '09 at 10:09
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Check out the documentation at MSDN for the HttpWebRequest.Credentials property. It contains a sample using the CredentialCache.

This may be what you need (in a integrated security scenario), but you might want to read the docs of NetworkCredential as well if you want to provide a username and password as strings.

Once you have the HttpWebRequest working you just say:

XmlTextReader rd = new XmlTextReader(yourHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream());
Teun D
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  • Thank you. The NetworkCredential class was really what I needed to know to get this. – awe Oct 19 '09 at 10:17