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Getting around the msXML issue

Geocoder.us user Jeremy Walker kindly sent in this bit of code that gets around the credential issue. This is a solution in C# (.Net) But Jermemy is sure that other strongly typed languages have similar network credential & WebRequest objects.

// Create a request using the geoCoder URL
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://geocoder.us/member/service/csv/geocode");

//Create Credentials object
NetworkCredential creds = new NetworkCredential("username","password");
CredentialCache cCache = new CredentialCache();

//Add the URI to the credential cache
cCache.Add(new Uri("http://geocoder.us/member/service/csv/geocode"), "Basic", creds);
request.Credentials = cCache;

// Get the response.
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse ();

// Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream ();

// Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (dataStream);
                       
// Read the content.
string[] responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd ().Split(',');

if(responseFromServer.Length != 6)
return;
                       
longitude = responseFromServer[1];
latitude = responseFromServer[0];
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