Inside my corporate environment, I have IIS7.5 hosting both a Web API service and a separate website which makes calls into that service via the RestSharp library. Both are currently configured with Windows Authentication.
If I navigate to either one with a browser, I'm prompted to enter my windows credential, and everything works great... I get web pages that I want and the REST service spits out my data. The part I'm struggling to figure out is how to use a single credential to authentication both. I can't figure out how to either pass the Website's credential to the service (I tried impersonating but it didn't work), or to manually prompt the user for username/password and then authenticate them with "Windows".
Help a noob out?
Settings for web API
Windows Authentication
Settings for web application
Windows Authentication
<identity impersonate="true" />
in <system.web>
of web.configAdd the following in the web.config:
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
</system.webServer>
Enable Windows Authentication
and ASP.NET Impersonation
within IIS
You can use the following code to POST data to web API (and GET as well obviously)
using (var client = new WebClient { UseDefaultCredentials = true })
{
client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentType, "application/xml; charset=utf-8");
byte[] responseArray = client.UploadData("URL of web API", "POST", Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(XMLText));
string response = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(responseArray);
}
NOTE: If you're still getting 401 errors you may need to use an IP address instead of a regular domain name for your URL (e.g.: 155.100.100.10 instead of mycompany.com)