Adding authentication header to HttpClient

Question

I'm trying to access an API, but all the documentation is in PHP and I'm not very familiar with PHP. I am having trouble authenticating to the API. The documentation is here.

Here is what I have so far

var webAddress = "https://xboxapi.com/v2/latest-xbox360-games";

var httpResponse = (new HttpClient().GetAsync(webAddress)).Result;
httpResponse.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
var jsonResponse = httpResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

I'm just not sure how to add the authentication header that they are using in PHP.

Any help would be appreciated.

lsowen · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-19 01:13:27Z

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To add a custom header (in this case X-AUTH), you need to send a custom HttpRequestMessage. For example:

var webAddress = "https://xboxapi.com/v2/latest-xbox360-games";

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpRequestMessage msg = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, webAddress);
msg.Headers.Add('X-AUTH', 'your-auth-key-here');

HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(msg);

answered Mar 19, 2015 at 1:13

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kmcnamee Over a year ago

In addition to the above you can also add the header directly onto the HttpClient if your reusing the HttpClient object HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); client.DefaultRequestHeaders.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-AUTH", "your-auth-key-here");

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