you need cookies as its used for form autentication: > The FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo class is used by the > ClientContext.FormsAuthenticationLogin method by first calling the > EnsureLogin method to check for authentication cookies. more detailed info can be found here: goto Authentication section! http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/268193/SharePoint-2010-Client-Object-Model-Part-1 taken from link above from fiddler you can see where its setting the cookie authentication in bold > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > > Cache-Control: private > > Content-Type: application/json > > Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 > > SPRequestGuid: 22e3f795-a5c9-492d-a551-3e950b8f1c10 > > **Set-Cookie: WSS_KeepSessionAuthenticated={4e4cffb3-203e-4857-8f5a-90a4b18789a4}; > path=/** > > X-SharePointHealthScore: 0 > > X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff > > X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 > > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > > MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 14.0.0.6029 > > Content-Length: 460 **EDIT** Ok so now i know your using windows authentication you need to send the credentails using the following: clientContext.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.FormsAuthentication; FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo formsAuthInfo = new FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo("MyUser", "MyPassword"); clientContext.FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo = formsAuthInfo; in your case: using (var context = new ClientContext("http:\\WebApplicationURL")) { context.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.FormsAuthentication; FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo formsAuthInfo = new FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo("MyUserName", "MyUserPassword"); context.FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo = formsAuthInfo; var site = context.Web; context.Load(site, s => s.Title); context.ExecuteQuery(); Console.WriteLine(site.Title); Console.ReadLine(); } or anonymous user: using (var context = new ClientContext("http:\\WebApplicationURL")) { context.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.Anonymous; var site = context.Web; context.Load(site, s => s.Title); context.ExecuteQuery(); Console.WriteLine(site.Title); Console.ReadLine(); } http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee535729(v=office.14).aspx