Setting the User-Agent header for a WebClient request

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What is the proper way of setting the User-Agent header for a WebClient request for Windows Phone 7? I found 2 options, but not sure which one is the correct one. Considering a WebClient object:

WebClient client = new WebClient();

I saw 2 options:

  1. set the User-Agent using: 

    client.Headers["User-Agent"] = "myUserAgentString";

  2. set the User-Agent using the WebHeaderCollection:

    WebHeaderCollection headers = new WebHeaderCollection();
headers[HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent] = "userAgentString";
client.Headers = headers;

Can you please advise which of the 2 methods above is the proper one?

windows-phone-7 c#
6 Answers

This worked for me:

var message = new HttpRequestMessage(method, url);
message.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("user-agent", "<user agent header value>");
var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.SendAsync(message);

Here you can find the documentation for TryAddWithoutValidation

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