Parsing webmail inbox

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Hi all

I need to be able to parse an Outlook Inbox that is only accessable via Webmail i.e. I enter a URL ([ignore]

http://myserver/exchange/myuser/inbox

[/ignore]) and am prompted for my username and passsword.

I've been trying to even just get a screenscrape of the page returned using the System.Net.HttpWebRequest object but it is refusing to authenticate me.

I have tried using Network Credentials to pass my username and password and I have tried to add an Authorization HTTP Header but the connection is refused on both tries.

The code is as follows:

Network Credentials Method

string requestURI = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver/exchange/myuser/inbox";[/URL]
System.Net.HttpWebRequest wr = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(requestURI);
wr.PreAuthenticate = true;
NetworkCredential credential = new NetworkCredential("myuser","mypassword","mydomain");
wr.Credentials = credential;
System.IO.StreamReader responseReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(wr.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());

string response = responseReader.ReadToEnd();

Http Headers Method

string requestURI = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver/exchange/myuser/inbox";[/URL]
System.Net.HttpWebRequest wr = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(requestURI);
wr.Headers.Add("Authorization:myuser:mypassword");
System.IO.StreamReader responseReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(wr.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
string response = responseReader.ReadToEnd();

Both of these methods fail on the wr.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()) call.

Can anyone help me with what I am doing wrong or possibly suggest a better way to do this, please?

Thanks as always


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[xai999]

How are you prompted for username and password? Is this trough a form, http authentication box or maybe some other method?

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[Craftor]

Hi xai999

Managed to overcome this one, thanks, by using the CredentialCache object as opposed to creating a NetworkCredential object.

Ciao


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