How to authenticate with Rest-client based on HttpClient and .net4

The HttpClient library did not make it into .Net 4. However it is available here http://nuget.org/List/Packages/HttpClient. However, authentication is done differently in this version of HttpClient.

var httpClient = new HttpClient();
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization 
                   = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("basic","...");

or

var webRequestHandler = new WebRequestHandler();
CredentialCache creds = new CredentialCache();
creds.Add(new Uri(serverAddress), "basic",
                        new NetworkCredential("user", "password"));
webRequestHandler.Credentials = creds;
var httpClient = new HttpClient(webRequestHandler);

And be warned, this library is going to get updated next week and there are minor breaking changes!

All these are out of date. The final way to do it is as follows:

var credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password);
var handler = new HttpClientHandler { Credentials = credentials };

using (var http = new HttpClient(handler))
{
    // ...
}