Hello,

I'm trying to create a web service that only authenticated users should have access to. I've created a backoffice user for this purpose which I verified the username and password to. I'm trying to test this web service by creating a console application that's connecting to the web service. The problem is that I only get 401 Unauthorized HTTP response. I'm trying to connect with the username and password with basic authentication and encode the username and password with base64 (username:password), I guess this is wrong but I can't find any information on how to do it?

Some code:

The console application that I'm trying to connect to the webservice (with deleted URLs):

            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
            handler.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password);
            HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)
            {
                BaseAddress = new Uri("http://www.myhost.com")
            };

            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
                new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));



            res = client.DeleteAsync("umbraco/myarea/mycontroller/...").Result;

            Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1})", (int)res.StatusCode, res.ReasonPhrase);

The webservice itself:

namespace myproject.Controllers
{
    [PluginController("myarea")]
    public class UnitApiController : UmbracoAuthorizedApiController
    {

        public void Delete(string id)
        {
            // Delete the unit from wisiconnect..
            // Some logic
        }
    }
}