WinRT C# - HttpRequestException: error 500

Question

I\'m trying to port my WP8 application to a Windows Store App and I\'m getting an HttpRequestException when performing the getStringAsync of the HttpClient.

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Answer 1

Fiddler is your friend!

Appears that service isn't too happy about being called when there's not a user-agent string passed in the request headers. Try adding:

client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("user-agent", "blah blah blah");

between your two lines of code. There's nothing magic in the blah blah blah part :), and it seems to work with your service, but who knows what, if any, interpretation the service is making of the UA string.