How to add custom Http Header for C# Web Service Client consuming Axis 1.4 Web service

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UmutKa picture UmutKa · May 22, 2009 · Viewed 181.5k times · Source

I'm trying to write a web service client in c# which the webservice is Java Axis 1.4. Axis service requires the Authorization: Basic Base64EncodedToken header value in the HTTP Headers. I can't find a way to set this header in standart ways of consuming web services in visual studio.net, like normal WSDL generated refernce nor with WSE3.0

I can't use WCF as the project is developed using .net 2.0.

Is there any way to do this ?

Answer

user334291 picture user334291 · May 6, 2010

It seems the original author has found their solution, but for anyone else who gets here looking to add actual custom headers, if you have access to mod the generated Protocol code you can override GetWebRequest:

protected override System.Net.WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri)
{
  System.Net.WebRequest request = base.GetWebRequest(uri);
  request.Headers.Add("myheader", "myheader_value");
  return request;
}

Make sure you remove the DebuggerStepThroughAttribute attribute if you want to step into it.

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