Calling a REST API when using .NET 4.5 or .NET Core
I would suggest DalSoft.RestClient (caveat: I created it). The reason being, because it uses dynamic typing, you can wrap everything up in one fluent call including serialization/de-serialization. Below is a working PUT example:
dynamic client = new RestClient("http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com");
var post = new Post { title = "foo", body = "bar", userId = 10 };
var result = await client.Posts(1).Put(post);