RightScale API sample

program.cs

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            // Reading RS specific config from ENV variables. To avoid
            // posting credentials publicly. They can be assigned however neccessary
            var username = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RS_USERNAME", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);
            var password = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RS_PASSWORD", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);
            var account = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("RS_ACCOUNT",EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);

            // Build API Url
            var apiUrl = "https://my.rightscale.com/api/acct/" + account + "/servers.xml";

            // Make call
            var response = HttpGet(apiUrl,username,password);

            // Display output
            Console.WriteLine(response);

        }

        // Code from Nate modified a little:

        public static string HttpGet(string url, string username, string password)
        {
            ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

            string result = null;
            try
            {
                HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(url)
                                     as HttpWebRequest;

                req.Headers["X-API-VERSION"] = "1.0";
                req.PreAuthenticate = false;
                req.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Get;


                var authInfo = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(username + ":" + password);
                var authString = Convert.ToBase64String(authInfo);

                req.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authString;
                using (HttpWebResponse resp = req.GetResponse()
                                              as HttpWebResponse)
                {
                    StreamReader reader =
                        new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
                    result = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }
            catch (WebException wex)
            {
                result = wex.ToString();
            }

            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                result = ex.ToString();
            }
            return result;
        }
    }
}