How do I pass username and password to an httpWebRequest in silverlight 4

Question

How do I pass username and password to an HttpWebRequest in Silverlight 4.

since the HttpWebRequst class in silverlight does not implement Credentials property, therefore i am unable to authenticate my user.

one way I found was, to pass credentials in header using Authorization header, but it requires ASCII encoded value, which is not supported in Silverlight.

any other alternatives???

Answer 1

Perhaps you should just try it. All http headers are by specification ASCII. Hence the fact that HttpWebRequest supports a Headers collection that accepts a string for a header value implies that the string will be converted appropriately when sent in a HTTP session.