title: error (407) "Proxy Authentication Required."
body: <p>I have a requirement like...i want to access an url (login page which is web) from a winforms.  i have to pass the credentials to that url and the response should be the contect of the authenticated web page(markup).</p>
  
  <p>I have written a function which will request the url and return the response. but i am getting error code (407) </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Proxy Authentication Required."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Here is my code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>private static void GetPageContent(){
      string url = "https://LoginPage.aspx/";
      HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
      request.Method = "GET";
      // If required by the server, set the credentials.
      //request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
      request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user1", "testuser#");
      // Get the response.
      HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
      // Display the status.
      Console.WriteLine(response.StatusDescription);
      // Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
      Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
      // Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
      StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
      // Read the content.
      string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
      // Display the content.
      Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer);
      // Cleanup the streams and the response.
      reader.Close();
      dataStream.Close();
      response.Close();
  }
  </code></pre>