How to get HttpClient to pass credentials along with the request?

Question

I have a web application (hosted in IIS) that talks to a Windows service. The Windows service is using the ASP.Net MVC Web API (self-hosted), and so can be communicated with

Answer 1

You can configure HttpClient to automatically pass credentials like this:

var myClient = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler() { UseDefaultCredentials = true });