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[charles waka <charlwak@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did some further research based on what Morten had suggested and I can
manipulate the data from my end (on the local instance of DHIS2 we have).
Thanks for your help and suggestions.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:06 AM, riddy ndoma <riddyndoma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> Can you share the error message. I think WebClient it's easy to use for
> calling a web API in c#.
>
> Cheers,
> On Aug 20, 2015 7:41 AM, "charles waka" <charlwak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone have an example of an established connection to DHIS2 using C#
>> HttpWebRequest or WebClient methods?
>>
>> I have written this method and all i get are errors when establishing the
>> connection.
>>
>> private void ConnectDHIS()
>>         {
>>             string uname = "admin", pwd = "district";
>>             string formattedUrl = "
>> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/dhis-web-commons/security/login.action?authOnly=true
>> ";
>>             string credentials =
>> Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(uname + ":" + pwd));
>>             HttpWebRequest request =
>> (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(formattedUrl);
>>            // request.PreAuthenticate = true;
>>             request.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.Authorization] =
>> string.Format("Basic {0}", credentials);
>>            // request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + credentials;
>>             //request.Headers.Add("Authorization","Basic " + credentials);
>>             HttpWebResponse response =
>> (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
>>             txtresponse.Text = response.ResponseUri.ToString();
>>         }
>>
>> The above code does not work even for my own local instance of DHIS2.
>>
>> Charles.
>>
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