Get protected resource from THREDDS (C# Code)

connectToTHREDDS.cs

var url = "http://urlToProtectedResource/xxxxxx_2016102600.nc?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities";
var username = "user";
var password = "password";

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

while (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.RedirectKeepVerb)
{
    var cookie = response.Headers["Set-Cookie"];
    var location = response.GetResponseHeader("Location"); // ccmdata...
    
    // new request (keeps cookie & auth)
    HttpWebRequest newRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri(location));
    newRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = false;  
    newRequest.Headers.Add("Cookie", cookie);
    var encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
    newRequest.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Authorization, "Basic " + encoded);
    response = (HttpWebResponse)newRequest.GetResponse();
}

var stream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
string content = reader.ReadToEnd();