HttpWebRequest not sending UserAgent

Question

I\'m new to looking at the whole Web side of .net, and I\'ve run into a slight issue.

I\'m trying to do a HttpWebRequest as below:

String uri = \"h         


        

Answer 1

I don't think that you are looking at the correct Fiddler line. What you have shown is a CONNECT verb, not GET. The UserAgent should be properly set using the request.UserAgent property. Another way to debug the request is to configure network tracing at your application level which I personally prefer compared to Fiddler:

<configuration>
    <system.diagnostics>
        <sources>
            <source name="System.Net" tracemode="protocolonly" maxdatasize="1024">
                <listeners>
                    <add name="System.Net"/>
                </listeners>
            </source>
        </sources>
        <switches>
            <add name="System.Net" value="Verbose"/>
        </switches>
        <sharedListeners>
            <add 
                name="System.Net"
                type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
                initializeData="network.log"
            />
        </sharedListeners>
        <trace autoflush="true"/>
    </system.diagnostics>
</configuration>