Hi!

After searching this (and others) forum I feel more stucked than before! What I try to do is sending XML to the service and then read the answer. But all I get is a 401.

Are there anyone that could bring a bit of light over why it wont work? See my code below...

HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri(slURL));
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentLength = rawTransfer.Length;
webRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
CredentialCache wrCache = new CredentialCache();
wrCache.Add(new ("https://secure.server.com/jsp/merchant/xml/"), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(slUsername, slPassword, null));
webRequest.Credentials = wrCache;
webRequest.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
webRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;

try
{
byte[] xmlBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(rawTransfer);
Stream reqStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
reqStream.Write(xmlBytes, 0, xmlBytes.Length);
reqStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream());
string responseString = stream.ReadToEnd();
stream.Close();
ListBox1.Items.Add(responseString);
return true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ListBox1.Items.Add(ex.Message);
}

Cheers

Johan

do you have the exact 401 failure, there are 5 (401.1 through to 401.5). They're all authentication failures, but depending on the subcode could be user, server, filter or ACL based.

Cathal

No! I only have the error message caught by the exception handler and that is:

"The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized."

The code below works most of the time, but cause a thread crash on the web server now and then.
Error: "Exception: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.at MSXML2.XMLHTTPClass.get_responseText() at checkout3.MakeCardPayment()"

XMLHTTP xmlHttp_ = new XMLHTTP();

            string ServerURL = "https://secure.server.com/jsp/merchant/xml/paymentService.jsp";
            xmlHttp_.open("POST",
                          @ServerURL,
                          false,
                          "USERNAME",
                          "password");
            xmlHttp_.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
            xmlHttp_.send(sb.ToString());
            xresp = xmlHttp_.responseText;

Cheers
/Johan

Hi johanfr

Does it work well if "enable anonymous access" is clicked in IIS? As a first step, make sure you can access the website without having to input username and password. 

BTW, I wonder if you'd mind provide more details about the IIS log file output with errors and full error code?

Hope it helps