Credentials Property

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Gets or sets authentication information for the request.

Namespace:  System.Net
Assembly:  System.Http (in System.Http.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property Credentials As NetworkCredential

public NetworkCredential Credentials { get; set; }

public:
property NetworkCredential^ Credentials {
    NetworkCredential^ get ();
    void set (NetworkCredential^ value);
}

member Credentials : NetworkCredential with get, set

function get Credentials () : NetworkCredential
function set Credentials (value : NetworkCredential)

Property Value

Type: System.Net. . :: . .NetworkCredential
An ICredentials that contains the authentication credentials associated with the request. The default is nullNothingnullptrunita null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Remarks

The Credentials property contains authentication information to identify the maker of the request. The Credentials property can be either a NetworkCredential, in which case the user, password, and ___domain information contained in the NetworkCredential object is used to authenticate the request, or it can be a CredentialCache, in which case the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the request is used to determine the user, password, and ___domain information to use to authenticate the request.

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see dd66cd4c-b087-415f-9c3e-94e3a1835f74.

See Also

Reference

HttpWebRequest Class

System.Net Namespace