However, if you use HttpClient as it was intended (asynchronously), then the code gets simpler. If I use await and async, as shown in Listing 4, the code isn’t quite as short as with the WebClient … ...

When working in applications in ASP.NET Core you might often need to invoke the Web API action methods using HttpClient to check if the endpoints are working fine. To achieve this, you would ...

The issue with the HttpWebRequest is that, if you want to call a RESTful service with the HttpWebRequest, you’re going to have to specify everything yourself. Listing 1 shows the simplest possible ...