A simple Async await call to download a file with Basic Authentication
A simple async await method to download a file using basic authentication. As this is Basic Auth you should only really use it with https:// calls otherwise the username & password will be sent over as plain Base64 string. using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Net.Http; using System.Threading.Tasks; private static async Task DownloadFileUsingBasicAuth(string url, string saveFileAs, string username, string password) { HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler(); handler.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password); HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(handler); Uri uri = new Uri(url); HttpResponseMessage responseMessage = await httpClient.GetAsync(uri, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead); if (responseMessage.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (var fileStream = File.Create(saveFileAs)) { using (var httpStream = await responseM