title: HttpWebRequest Authentication not working
body: <p>Alright, so I'm writing a program to access a RESTful service, but I first must provide authentication to the website. I have valid credentials and my entire code looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Text;
  using System.Collections;
  using System.Net;
  using System.IO;
  
  namespace AccessAPI
  {
      class Program
      {
          static void Main(string[] args)
          {
              string uri = "http://domainName/";
              HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
              string auth = CreateAuthorization("http://domainName/", "my\\username", "password");
              request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + auth;
              HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
              StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
              Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
          }
  
          static string CreateAuthorization(string realm, string userName, string password)
          {
              string auth = ((realm != null) &amp;&amp; (realm.Length &gt; 0) ?
          realm + @"\" : "") + userName + ":" + password;
              auth = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(auth));
              return auth;
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've come this far using a few of the solutions posted on other forums. While this seemed to work out for some people, it doesn't for me. First off, I do KNOW that the credentials are accurate. I'm able to enter them over a web browser and they behave just as they should. Also, I made sure that any "\" in them (there is one in the username) is represented with a "\\" in the code. Every time I run this, though, I keep on getting back "The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized."
  Can anyone help me troubleshoot through this? Thank you for your time!</p>