Share same HTTP Client for HTTP Requests

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Hi,

I need to use an external API and to authenticate, we need to perform two calls. The first one allows to connect and the second one retrieves a token. Unfortunately the second call doesn’t work if it doesn’t share the same “HTTP Client” as the first call. In C#, it looks like this:

    var client = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler()
    {
        UseDefaultCredentials = true
    });
    var request2 = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "First Link to authenticate");
    var response2 = client.SendAsync(request2).Result;
    var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "Second link for the token");
    var response = client.SendAsync(request).Result;

To reproduce this behavior in UiPath, I tried to put two “HTTP Request” activities but it doesn’t work. It seems like the two calls don’t share the same HttpClient. I can use the Invoke Code activity but I would like to know if there is a way to make it work using the HTTP Request activities.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Best regards,

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Would it work via Postman? (two consecutive calls from Postman would be the closest to trying to redo it via 2 HTTP Request activities)

I assume that maybe it should, if you can exactly replicate the second API call exactly as per the state after the first one is executed, so all headers, body, cookies, etc.