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Just a quick post as I’ve just fallen foul of this.

Recently I changed by web-client to use the nice await/async HttpClient, e.g.

   
  HttpClient client = new HttpClient();   
  string result = await webClient.GetStringAsync(serviceRequest); 

The problem is that my service decided to be a good web citizen and change their API by sending a redirect. Unfortunatley the above code simple fell over…legs in the air.

The trick is to configure the HttpClient to allow redirects;

   
  HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();   
  handler.AllowAutoRedirect = true;   
  HttpClient webClient = new HttpClient(handler);            
  string result = await webClient.GetStringAsync(serviceRequest);