How to consume HttpClient from F#?

Question

I\'m new to F# and stuck in understanding async in F# from the perspective of a C# developer. Say having the following snippet in C#:

Answer 1

Here is a function that should do what you're looking for (note that you'll have to wrap the code in an asynchronous computation expression in order to use the let! syntax):

let getAsync (url:string) = 
    async {
        let httpClient = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient()
        let! response = httpClient.GetAsync(url) |> Async.AwaitTask
        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode () |> ignore
        let! content = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync() |> Async.AwaitTask
        return content
    }