Setting Authorization Header of HttpClient

Question

I have an HttpClient that I am using for a REST API. However I am having trouble setting up the Authorization header. I need to set the header to the token I received from d

Answer 1

As it is a good practice to reuse the HttpClient instance, for performance and port exhaustion problems, and because none of the answers give this solution (and even leading you toward bad practices :( ), I put here a link towards the answer I made on a similar question :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40707446/717372

Some sources on how to use HttpClient the right way:

• https://aspnetmonsters.com/2016/08/2016-08-27-httpclientwrong/
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/alazarev/2017/12/29/disposable-finalizers-and-httpclient/