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How to access XML file on employee sharepoint portal?

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Hi guys. I'll be rather brief if I can so here goes.
I made this app in C# that goes onto my employee portal and automatically gets my shifts for me every 30 minutes my using a web browser control and then it reads the HTML data from that and generates a calendar for me and also provides automated alerts.
Issue
Problem is that this web browser uses IE (yeesh help me) and it doesn't work with all parts of the site. I have done some digging around on the site and I found where the ASP site gets the data from: An XML sheet somewhere on the server. I can access this XML sheet, but only if I'm logged in (please see the attached images for more information).
Current solution
So my question is this: How do I actually login to this area?
I could login using the webbrowser and then download the XML using that, but it's too slow and too old, so is there a way I can pass my credentials through?
The URL is like this "https://www.mycoles.com.au/api/rosters/nextweek" -- I don't see any thing like ?name=myname ?pass=mypassword... soo yea. (I'm a bit new).
Further details:
Application language: C#.
Current technology: Windows forms applications/ IE web browser control.
Site backend: Microsoft Sharepoint.
Anything I'm missing? Please ask..?
Attached content
Mycoles XML Logged in
Mycoles XML Access Denied
Update:
So after a while of searching and examining the site, I tried to access the data with a c# webbrowser and it didn't work. It said that it can't download the data, however chrome is able to. Odd. I'm not sure it is an XML file anymore, rather a request and I don't have enough knowledge to work with this, so pointers anyone? Check this site out https://www.mycoles.com.au/api/rosters/nextweek and tell me what you think it is please. Thanks in advance... :)

SharePoint supports different forms of authentication. Out of the box, Active Directory-based single sign-on is provided, and forms-based (username, password) authentication can be configured.
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