C# - Xamarin - HttpClient - Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object - iOS

I'm working on a cross platform library that makes HTTP requests. It's working fine on Android, but when I try to use it on iOS I'm getting an exception and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Here is my code:

// method from cross platform library

Task.Factory.StartNew(delegate
{
    try
    {
        var client = new HttpClient();
        // some other setup stuff
        HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.post, "http://myurl.com...");

        var task = client.SendAsync(request);
        task.Wait(); // Exception thrown on this line

        var response = task.Result;

        var responseString = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
    }
}

On task.Wait(); I get a System.AggregateException with an inner exception of System.InvalidOperationException that says Operation is invalid due to the current state of the object.

Trying to find some solutions, I found that the issue could be cause by calling this on the UI thread. But that's the whole point of wrapping this all in Task.Factory.StartNew.

I've tried everything I know to do and have yet to solve the issue. Any help would be very appreciated.

Edit:

I decided to try my solution on an iPhone simulator. It's an iPhone 6 simulator running iOS 10. My physical device is the same. It works on the simulator, but not the physical device for some reason... very strange.

Edit 2:

Thanks to @YuriS for finding a solution.

From: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/36713/issue-with-microsoft-http-net-library-operation-is-not-valid-due-to-the-current-state-of-the-objec

What you can do is: 1) Go to References of ios Project 2) Edit References 3) Check 'System.Net.Http'

Behaviour for android is the same.

There can be few problems described here: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/36713/issue-with-microsoft-http-net-library-operation-is-not-valid-due-to-the-current-state-of-the-objec

https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17936

"Operation is not valid" error at Xamarin.iOS project with HttpClient

http://motzcod.es/post/78863496592/portable-class-libraries-httpclient-so-happy

Seems all post pointing on System.Net.Http

Regardless of the problem there is a better ways doing this.One of them:

public static async Task PostRequest()
{
    try
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://myuri");
        //request.Headers.Add("", "");
        var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
        var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {

    }
}

If you want to wait till function completes you call

await PostRequest();

If you don't need to wait then just omit "await" in the call or use

PostRequest.ContinueWith((t)=>
{
});

Also you need to handle an exception within the function, so probably returning just Task is not the best. I was just basing my answer on original function signature