Xamarin Forms - Preserve Basic Authentication after redirect?

Asked Mar 13 '17 at 19:10

Active Mar 14 '17 at 08:54

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How to preserve Basic Auth after redirecting in HttpClient?

Original URL: https://myapp.herokuapp.com/api/login
Redirect URL with custom domain: http://io.myapp.co/api/login

Below is my code I use in Xamarin Forms. When I use the original URL, authentication works. But when I use the redirect URL, I get an "Unauthorized" response. The redirect URL works fine in Postman.

using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("email", TxtEmail.Text);
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("password", TxtPassword.Text);
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = HttpClientHelper.NdAuth;
    var result = await client.GetAsync(Constants.UrlLoginUser);
}

How to preserve Basic Auth while redirecting? How Postman is able to do it?

edited Mar 14 '17 at 08:54

asked Mar 13 '17 at 19:10

Heshan

Take a look on this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14627399/setting-authorization-header-of-httpclient it should give you an idea. – EvZ Mar 13 '17 at 19:22
@EvZ I'm using the correct way to set authorization. What I want to find is, why the authentication gets destroyed when re-directing? – Heshan Mar 14 '17 at 05:02
Same question have been asked already: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14056998/1970317 – EvZ Mar 14 '17 at 07:34
Yes. But it's different in Xamarin forms. Credential cache is not available. – Heshan Mar 14 '17 at 08:55

Xamarin Forms - Preserve Basic Authentication after redirect?

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