'SnipCart API Authorization returns 401 Unauthorized

I want to use the V3 SnipCart API to get data about specific orders on my thank you page. I am using C# to do this. I keep getting this error when trying to use the API

System.Net.WebException:'The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.'

I have tried to follow their documentation by using only the API key with no password as shown here. Below is my code that I wrote that is giving me the error. I wrote this inside my controller. I get the error as soon as the breakpoint hits this line responseObjGet = (HttpWebResponse)requestObjGet.GetResponse();

//Testing API get data begin
        string strurltest = String.Format("https://app.snipcart.com/api/orders/c5541254-r8541-8501-0024-juy85vv002154");
       
        WebRequest requestObjGet = WebRequest.Create(strurltest);
        requestObjGet.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("HihiukoJOUBVCTYIiijiGiiYTd6tOiUyTYo", "");
        

        requestObjGet.Method = "GET";
        
        HttpWebResponse responseObjGet = null;
        responseObjGet = (HttpWebResponse)requestObjGet.GetResponse(); //401 is triggered here

        string strresulttest = null;
        using (Stream stream = responseObjGet.GetResponseStream())
        {
            StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream);
            strresulttest = sr.ReadToEnd();
            sr.Close();

        }

Concerns that I have as well are the following: 1.The API key that I entered here is my public api key since I am still in the development and testing phase. I am not sure if this api call will work with the test api key or if I have to use the real secret production key. Any thoughts?

2.I am debugging this off my local machine (localhost:) for now before I deploy these API calls to production to test these changes in prod still with the test api key, could that be a reason for the 401? Since the URL that is trying to get the info is my localhost: url and not my actual domain that I added to SnipCart Dashboard. I was thinking maybe I have to try and hit this from prod environment instead? Any thought?

These are the 2 possibilities that come to mind for me. I am not too savvy on APi's yet so I don't know if my call is missing something.

Summary: All I am trying to do is be able to use the API so that I can load the data I want for an order when users reach my custom thank you page with their token.

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Solution 1:[1]

Our 401 "Unauthorized" status code is returned when the authentication failed to our API with your Authorization header's value.

Here's the documentation about the auth to our APIs. Make sure to return us a base64 value of your secret API key and the trailing single colon character at the end to respect the Basic Authentication Scheme.

And if you are trying to get data for an order that was placed in live mode then you would need to use the live secret API key.

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