# Transition from requests to system.net.httpClient

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transition-from-requests-to-system-net-httpclient/77665>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [August 9, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transition-from-requests-to-system-net-httpclient/77665 "2023-08-09T20:33:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lauren\_Hart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lauren\_Hart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Lauren_Hart)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transition-from-requests-to-system-net-httpclient/77665/1 "2023-08-09T20:33:13Z")

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Hello All - I would like to transition a script that we have running from using the requests module to system.net.httpClient. Not that there is an issue with the current method, but we transitioned to a new server and instead of getting requests set up on it, I would rather use the method that is available.

Here is the current script:

```plaintext
accessTokenResponse = requests.post(tokenUrl, data=data, verify=False, allow_redirects=False, auth=(self.clientId, self.clientSecret))

```

I am trying to use system.net.httpClient() along with client.post() to retrieve a bearer access token but am struggling on where to put the parameters for the request. Some of the methods I have tried are shown below but I continue to receive 400 error. Any other suggestions to try would be appreciated!

```plaintext
data = {'grant_type': 'client_credentials'}
header = {'clientId' : clientID, 'clientSecret' : clientSecret}
response = client.post(url=tokenUrl, data=data, headers=header)

client = system.net.httpClient()
response = client.post(url=tokenUrl, data=data, username=clientID, password=clientSecret)

```

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**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/transition-from-requests-to-system-net-httpclient/77665/2 "2023-08-09T21:54:53Z")

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I don't have an answer for you, but I took the liberty of editing your post so the code is correctly formatted. In the future you can do this yourself by surrounding your code with triple-backticks. Makes everything much easier to read, which will get you answers faster.