Bitcoin/PIVX JSON-RPC and CURL just returns Unauthorized

Bitcoin/PIVX JSON-RPC and CURL just returns Unauthorized

No matter what I try, I cannot get a request to PIVX wallet / Blockchain Api. It works 100% in curl from CMD.

curl --user user:pass --data-binary "{\"jsonrpc\": \"1.0\", \"id\": \"curltest\", \"method\": \"mnbudget\", \"params\": [\"show\"]}" -H \"content-type:text/plain;\" http://localhost:51473

(where user:pass are my rpcusername and rpcpassword in pivx.conf)

I've also tried a request in this format:

curl --data-binary "{\"jsonrpc\": \"1.0\", \"id\": \"curltest\", \"method\": \"mnbudget\", \"params\": [\"show\"]}" -H \"content-type:text/plain;\" http://user:pass@localhost:51473

The JSONRPC request from their docs (https://github.com/PIVX-Project/PIVX/wiki/API-Reference-JSON-RPC) in the .NET section throws Unauthorized, so does it if I try a standard webrequest.

I'm making the request it from my application (local on my win10 dev pc) to pivxd / bitcoind (same thing) also running on my pc.

I'm under deadline and have taken nearly 2 weeks trying to get this to work!! I've never done this before. Please help!

this is my latest attempt (I've tried SO MANY ways)

        public void GetBlockchainProposals()
        {
        try {
        var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://user:pass@localhost:51473");
        httpWebRequest.ContentType = "text/plain";
        httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";

        using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
        {
            string json;
            json = "{ \"jsonrpc\": \"1.0\", \"id\":\"curltest\", \"method\": \"getinfo\",\"params\":[]}";

            streamWriter.Write(json);
        }
        var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
        using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
        {
            var responseText = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
        }
        }
        catch(Exception ex) {
            this.Logger.LogCritical(ex, $"{ex.InnerException}"); // Unauthorized
        }
    }

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