.Net 4.5中增加了一个新的System.Net.Http.HttpClient名字空间（在 System.Net.Http.dll 中），用于发送 HTTP 请求和接收 HTTP 响应。

基本操作

和以前的HttpWebRequest相比，HttpClient更加简洁，下面就是一个下载 class HtmlTextHandler : HttpClientHandler
{
protected async override Task<HttpResponseMessage> SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
var response = await base.SendAsync(request, cancellationToken);

var contentType = response.Content.Headers.ContentType;
contentType.CharSet = await getCharSetAsync(response.Content);

return response;
}

private async Task<string> getCharSetAsync(HttpContent httpContent)
{
var charset = httpContent.Headers.ContentType.CharSet;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(charset))
return charset;

var content = await httpContent.ReadAsStringAsync();
var match = Regex.Match(content, @"charset=(?<charset>.+?)""", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
if (!match.Success)
return charset;

return match.Groups["charset"].Value;
}
}