http client cancel request in windows 8.1

Question

I am working on a Windows Phone 8.1 project. There are two versions of http client in Windows 8.1 - system.net.http and windows.web.http. Microsoft re

Answer 1

Haven't tested it yet, but this could work:

await client.GetStringAsync(new Uri("http://www.google.com")).AsTask(cancellationToken);

If you don't have the need for cancellation tokens, you can also cancel the IAsyncOperation directly like this:

var operation = _httpClient.GetStringAsync(new Uri("http://www.google.com"));
var response = await operation;

operation.Cancel();

This blog post is a good read on the whole Task vs IAsyncOperation topic.