title: Web API Call from a C# console application with credentials
body: <p>I am trying to write a Web API site with a Get method that is Authorized. The site is a default template site, using Individual Accounts. So it stores the username and password in a database. I am attempting to call this Web API site and pass along a username and password in a console application via HttpClient. I have tried several ways of going about this. I think* i have CORS enabled on my API site. I keep getting Unauthorized results. Here is the HttpClient code I am running, I feel like it is completely valid, and I think something needs to be configured to handle this username and password on the API side, but I am completely unsure how to go about it if that is the case.</p>
  
  <pre><code>using (var client = new HttpClient())
  {
      var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("sampleUser:Test123!");
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));
  
      client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:15198/");
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
      try
      {
          HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("api/Query");
          if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
          {
              thing = response.Content.ToString();
          }
      }
      catch (HttpRequestException e)
      {
          var test = e.Message;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>