using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Net;

​

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

            var url = "https://bsm-iisprod-auth.bs-shipmanagement.com/winauth";

            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);

            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            //here i need to know what type of authentication the url is

            Console.WriteLine (response.StatusDescription);

        //    Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();

          //  StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (dataStream);

            //string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();

           // reader.Close ();

           // dataStream.Close ();

            //response.Close ();

    }

}