HttpClient Verses WebClient with .Net and C#

I often find I do what I know over and over again and don’t look for new solutions if the old tried and true solution works.  At my last hackathon, I wrote an app the screen scraped the starbucks site.  I noticed when I looked at the site that a redirect happened after sign in.  My WebClient call did not follow the redirect.  I asked for help from a very bright Microsoft Azure guy (Josh Twist) who blogs at http://www.thejoyofcode.com/About_us.aspx.  Josh suggested switching to HttpClient and making sure to set the option that follows redirects.

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