HttpClient in .net issues 2 requests when providing username and password in NetworkCredentials

Question

When using the HttpClient in .net 4.5 to do basic authentication I\'m finding that it\'s issuing 2 requests.

The first fails with a HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized and the

Answer 1

The best to avoid the second call is to create and set Authorization header manually: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4346843/1143824