Question

I am trying to consume REST API from my .NET Application. This API’s are all written in JAVA.
I am asked to pass the authentication credentials via HTTP headers. How can I pass these authentication credentials like ‘DATE’, ‘AUTHORIZATION’ and ‘Accept’ via HTTP headers.

Which class in .NET can I use to accomplish this task. Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

Update

This library has now been replaced by http://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Net.Http/2.1.10

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Use the Microsoft.Http client library that is in WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2.

Here is how you could use it:

    var client = new HttpClient();
    client.DefaultHeaders.Authorization = new Credential("ArbitraryAuthHeader");
    client.DefaultHeaders.Date = DateTime.Now;
    client.DefaultHeaders.Accept.Add("application/xml");

    var response = client.Get("http://example.org");

    var xmlString = response.Content.ReadAsString();