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Smeegs
Smeegs

Reputation: 9224

Switching from httpwebrequest to httpclient and I can't figure out how to send my header?

So, this is the code I was using



    string URL = "http://www.test.com/posts/.json";
    var getInfo = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(URL);{
    getInfo.Headers["Cookie"] = CookieHeader;
    getInfo.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    using (WebResponse postStream = await getInfo.GetResponseAsync())
    {
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(postStream.GetResponseStream());
        string str = reader.ReadToEnd();
    }

and I want to switch to httpclient, which I've got working, except it doesn't pass the Cookie information. I get the information, but just the anonymous information. Not the information for the user that I'm sending across. Here is what I currently have.



    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
    new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
    client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://www.test.com/");
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Cookie", CookieHeader);
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("http://www.test.com" + URL);
    string str;
    str = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4161

Answers (1)

cokeman19
cokeman19

Reputation: 2465

You'll need to use an HttpClientHandler, add your cookies to it and then pass it into the HttpClient's constructor.

An example:

    Uri baseUri = new Uri("http://www.test.com/");
    HttpClientHandler clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler();
    clientHandler.CookieContainer.Add(baseUri, new Cookie("name", "value"));
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient(clientHandler);
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
    client.BaseAddress = baseUri;
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("http://www.test.com" + URL);
    string str2 = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

I found a reference to this same behavior here, stating that a header named "Cookie" in DefaultRequestHeaders is ignored and not sent, but seemingly any other value will work as expected.

Upvotes: 5

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