How do I enable access to my RESTful, public force.com service from C#?

Question

I have a RESTful Apex service that I can browse to and call using my web browser.

A problem occurs when I try to call it from C#:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.Net.WebException' occurred in System.dll

Additional information: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

This is my code:

using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    var url = $"https://x.force.com/activations/services/apexrest/sample/get?id=123";
    var json = client.DownloadString(url);
}

How can I call this RESTful service from C#? It works just fine from an unauthorized browser. The service itself returns a set of JSON which I would like to parse.

Edit: Just to clarify, my RESTful service is exposed as a force.com site and I can hit its controller methods from a fresh browser with a completely clean browsing history and get a response back (never having to type in my username or password or anything).

Answer 1

You either need to authenticate yourself with one user credentials in Salesforce, and then you will be able to access the REST service. Otherwise, you will have to make the REST service available on a public site (force.com site), which will allow to access REST service, without any authentication.

You can refer to below link, where I recently gave an example of accessing the REST api.

https://success.salesforce.com/answers?id=9063A000000pIUtQAM

Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

I figured it out. Jesus, not in all my years have I ever encountered this. I was using .NET Framework 4.0, which does not support TLS 1.2.

However, Salesforce decided to disable TLS 1.0 on July 22, 2017. I realize this is in the future from now, but I am using a Salesforce sandbox which must have it enabled, because once I updated the code to .NET 4.6, it worked immediately.