Question

Is there any way to use CookieContainer and specify UserAgent in same request using WinRT?

Looks like HttpWebRequest does not support UserAgent.
Also HttpClient + HttpRequestMessage doesn’t seem to support CookieContainer.

Or could I read received cookies from HttpRequestMessage somehow? (In WP7 cookies were not readable.)

Answer 1

It is possible to use CookieContainen with HttpClient also.
You just need to create first HttpClientHandler.
From there is it possible to add CookieContainer.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh781241.aspx

var handler = new HttpClientHandler();

handler.CookieContainer = myCookieContainer;

var httpClient = new HttpClient(handler);

httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add(“user-agent”, “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0)”);