Missing Properties in HttpWebRequest

Question

I am using .Net 4 and VS express 2010.

I could make my post request but I cant set some of the headers. Below code work fines

WebRequest Request = Request.Create("http://example.com") as HttpWebRequest;
Request.Method = "POST";
Request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8";
Request.Headers.Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,  deflate");

The problems is that I cant set other headers like "Accept","UserAgent","Referer","Connection"

I had tried the following ways but fail

Request.Accept = "*/*";
Request.Headers.Set("Accept", "*/*");

For the first line, the Accept property doesn't exist while for the second line, the header need to be edited with a proper method or property.

I am a rookie and I had searched on google and stackoverflow. If you don't know how to solve it, pointing out any direction in fixing this like reinstalling something would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

Accept doesn't exist as a property on WebRequest, but it does exist on HttpWebRequest.

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) Request.Create("http://example.com");
request.Accept = "*/*";

Even though you were previously using as HttpWebRequest (and I'd strongly suggest preferring casting instead), your variable was declared to be of type WebRequest, which is why it wouldn't compile.