How can I access a web page protected with username password and show it in webview.

Question

Hi,

I am using a webview control and I want to access a webpage which asks for user name and password. I have the username and password but I dont want to prompt the user for credentials, how can I pass username and password with the url and login and access the webpage???

Example:

I want to access the modem configuration from web view. It asks for username and password before showing the interface.

Any suggestions?

Code : 

HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();

handler.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("admin", "password");

HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);

string body = await client.GetStringAsync(@"http://192.168.1.1"); // throws exception on this line

This is how I am trying to access the modem configuration interface but getting exception.

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Rohit

Answer 1

What kind of authentication is it using?  Windows auth, Basic, Digest?

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Answer 2

Basic

username and password.

Like we see when we try to access the modem or the router from browser.

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Rohit

Answer 3

Solution here (written in C#, but you can adapt it):

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/archive/2013/10/31/webview-single-sign-on.aspx

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NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.