By design the body content in ASP.NET Web API is treated as forward-only stream that can be read only once. The first read in your case is being done when Web API is binding your model, after that the Request.Content will not return anything. You can remove the contact from your action parameters, get the … Read more
It looks like it is an extension method (in System.Net.Http.Formatting): HttpContentExtensions Class Update: PM> install-package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client According to the System.Net.Http.Formatting NuGet package page, the System.Net.Http.Formatting package is now legacy and can instead be found in the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client package available on NuGet here.
This is answered in some of the answers to Can’t find how to use HttpContent as well as in this blog post. In summary, you can’t directly set up an instance of HttpContent because it is an abstract class. You need to use one the classes derived from it depending on your need. Most likely … Read more
Instead of implementing retry functionality that wraps the HttpClient, consider constructing the HttpClient with a HttpMessageHandler that performs the retry logic internally. For example: public class RetryHandler : DelegatingHandler { // Strongly consider limiting the number of retries – “retry forever” is // probably not the most user friendly way you could respond to “the … Read more