How to get cookies when logging into a site using PCL's HttpWebRequest if the page redirects?

Question

C++ / C#

I decided to rewrite my library, which I wrote specifically for WP7 (event based async), on the Portable Class Library (I plan to support WStore apps in the future) using all sorts of charms like async / await. Yes, here's the problem. At the very beginning, I ran into problems, most of them had already been solved, but one remained. When entering the site, it returns 302 and the cookies I need, then it redirects to the main one. In WP7 I just set AllowAutoRedirect = false and everything worked great. But there is no such property in PCL :( Unfortunately, I did not find anything in Google. Maybe MS did some other way to disable the redirect, but I don’t know?
Well, a little question out of idle curiosity: as far as I know, there is no WebClient in PCL, it remains either to HttpWebRequest or to nuget HttpClient. I haven't really used either one yet. What is generally more convenient and for what purposes is more convenient?

Answer 1

They suggested a solution on the msdn forum Just
in case, I'll post a larger piece of code, suddenly it will come in handy for someone, but first you need to install the portable version of the HttpClient
Install-Package Microsoft.Net.Http

HttpClientHandler hch = new HttpClientHandler();
hch.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
HttpClient hc = new HttpClient(hch);

StringContent queryString = new StringContent(string.Format("login={0}&password={1}", Uri.EscapeUriString(username), Uri.EscapeUriString(password));
queryString.Headers.ContentType = new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

HttpResponseMessage msg = await hc.PostAsync("http://www....", queryString);
string responseBody = await msg.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
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