HttpClient.GetAsync with network credentials

Question

I\'m currently using HttpWebRequest to get a website. I\'d like to use the await pattern, which is not given for HttpWebRequests. I found the class

Answer 1

You can pass an instance of the HttpClientHandler Class with the credentials to the HttpClient Constructor:

using (var handler = new HttpClientHandler { Credentials = ... })
using (var client = new HttpClient(handler))
{
    var result = await client.GetAsync(...);
}