How to add parameters into a WebRequest?

Question

I need to call a method from a webservice, so I've written this code:

 private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/"; string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form"; WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request); webRequest.Method = "POST"; webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; webRequest. webRequest.ContentLength = 0; WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

But this method requires some parameters, as following:

Post data:

_username:'API USER', // api authentication username _password:'API PASSWORD', // api authentication password

How can I add these parameters into this Webrequest?

Jacob · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28 23:52:54Z

Use stream to write content to webrequest

string data = "username=<value>&password=<value>"; //replace <value> byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data); private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/"; string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form"; WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request); webRequest.Method = "POST"; webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; webRequest.ContentLength = dataStream.Length; Stream newStream=webRequest.GetRequestStream(); // Send the data. newStream.Write(dataStream,0,dataStream.Length); newStream.Close(); WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

what are the extra parameters you added to this newStream.Write(data,0,data.Length)

Cœur · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-29 17:58:01Z

If these are the parameters of url-string then you need to add them through '?' and '&' chars, for example http://example.com/index.aspx?username=Api_user&password=Api_password.

If these are the parameters of POST request, then you need to create POST data and write it to request stream. Here is sample method:

private static string doRequestWithBytesPostData(string requestUri, string method, byte[] postData, CookieContainer cookieContainer, string userAgent, string acceptHeaderString, string referer, string contentType, out string responseUri) { var result = ""; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(requestUri)) { var request = WebRequest.Create(requestUri) as HttpWebRequest; if (request != null) { request.KeepAlive = true; var cachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.BypassCache); request.CachePolicy = cachePolicy; request.Expect = null; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(method)) request.Method = method; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(acceptHeaderString)) request.Accept = acceptHeaderString; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(referer)) request.Referer = referer; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentType)) request.ContentType = contentType; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userAgent)) request.UserAgent = userAgent; if (cookieContainer != null) request.CookieContainer = cookieContainer; request.Timeout = Constants.RequestTimeOut; if (request.Method == "POST") { if (postData != null) { request.ContentLength = postData.Length; using (var dataStream = request.GetRequestStream()) { dataStream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length); } } } using (var httpWebResponse = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) { if (httpWebResponse != null) { responseUri = httpWebResponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri; cookieContainer.Add(httpWebResponse.Cookies); using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream())) { result = streamReader.ReadToEnd(); } return result; } } } } responseUri = null; return null; }

@Omid a number indicating how long the system should wait before giving up.

feroze · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-25 01:36:10Z

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For doing FORM posts, the best way is to use WebClient.UploadValues() with a POST method.

answered Jul 25, 2010 at 1:36

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Susarla Nikhilesh Over a year ago

Can I have an example ?

Sandeep Kumar M · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-21 12:18:46Z

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Hope this works

webRequest.Credentials= new NetworkCredential("API_User","API_Password");

edited Apr 21, 2015 at 12:18

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Keith Aymar · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-20 16:50:49Z

I have a feeling that the username and password that you are sending should be part of the Authorization Header. So the code below shows you how to create the Base64 string of the username and password. I also included an example of sending the POST data. In my case it was a phone_number parameter.

string credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_username + ":" + _password)); HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Request); webRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Basic {0}", credentials)); webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; webRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post; webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true; webRequest.Proxy = null; string data = "phone_number=19735559042"; byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data); request.ContentLength = dataStream.Length; Stream newStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream(); newStream.Write(dataStream, 0, dataStream.Length); newStream.Close(); HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse(); Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream(); StreamReader streamreader = new StreamReader(stream); string s = streamreader.ReadToEnd();

Demetre Phipps · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-20 14:24:10Z

The code below differs from all other code because at the end it prints the response string in the console that the request returns. I learned in previous posts that the user doesn't get the response Stream and displays it.

//Visual Basic Implementation Request and Response String Dim params = "key1=value1&key2=value2" Dim byteArray = UTF8.GetBytes(params) Dim url = "https://okay.com" Dim client = WebRequest.Create(url) client.Method = "POST" client.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" client.ContentLength = byteArray.Length Dim stream = client.GetRequestStream() //sending the data stream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length) stream.Close() //getting the full response in a stream Dim response = client.GetResponse().GetResponseStream() //reading the response Dim result = New StreamReader(response) //Writes response string to Console Console.WriteLine(result.ReadToEnd()) Console.ReadKey()

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