How to fix the error : the remote server returned an error: (403) forbidden.

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when I try run code, it throws an error.

The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

What I have tried:

My code is

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.sriramachandramedicalcentre.com/api/appserver/app/getAppoimentdetails");
           
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
request.Proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Console.WriteLine(response.StatusDescription);
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();

Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer);
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();

Posted 29-Jul-18 22:02pm

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Updated 29-Jul-18 22:21pm

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2018-07-29T22:22:00

You are passing wrong credentials (see HTTP 403 - Wikipedia[^]).

You have to pass credentials for an account on the server instead of the Windows credentials of the user running the application on the client which are used with CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials:

C#

request.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password);
// Or with domain:
//request.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password, domain);