I have the following code in an MVC app controller to send some data to be stored in an Archive table using EF6 via a WebAPI2 call.
I'm getting a "Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type" even though I'm setting to POST and the api call is defined to accept only POST.
What in the world am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
ArchiveUploadModel.ArchiveUpload obj = new ArchiveUploadModel.ArchiveUpload(); obj.LT = LT; obj.PID = PID.ToString(); obj.Title = "Ex Review"; obj.HTML = message.Body; // the HTML is a rendered HTML email message if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(obj.HTML)) { HttpWebRequest req = HttpWebRequest.Create("http://example.com/MyApp/api/UploadToArchive") as HttpWebRequest; request.ContentType = "application/json"; request.Method = "POST"; string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(obj); using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream())) { streamWriter.Write(json); streamWriter.Flush(); streamWriter.Close(); } } using (HttpWebResponse webresponse = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) { using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(webresponse.GetResponseStream())) { string response = reader.ReadToEnd(); } } This is the code for my WebAPI call:
[HttpPost] [Route("api/UploadToArchive")] [EnableCors("http://example.com", // Origin "Accept, Origin, Content-Type, Options", // Request headers "POST", // HTTP methods PreflightMaxAge = 600 // Preflight cache duration )] public IHttpActionResult UploadToArchive(ArchiveUpload upload) { string HTML = upload.HTML; string Title = upload.Title; string LT = upload.LT; string lt = getLT(upload.PID); // essentially secure checking to see if it matches passed LT. if (lt == LT) { // Upload the file to the archive using the ArchiveRepository's UpdateArchive() function: _ArchiveRepository.UpdateArchive(HTML, System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(Title), "", upload.PID); return Ok(PID); } else { return BadRequest("Invalid LT"); } } ArchiveUpload model definition in both applications:
public class ArchiveUpload { public string LT { get; set; } public string PID { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public string HTML { get; set; } } 
