Is it possible to send a POST request using HttpWebRequest?

I've been trying for few hours now to send an HTTP POST using System.Net.HttpWebRequest but alas I fail.
 
From going through the source code, it appears that HttpWebRequest actually does not support sending body. Is it even possible?
 
Here is my code:

            var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
            webRequest.Method = "POST";
            webRequest.ContentType = "text/html";
            webRequest.ContentLength = 6;

            var requestStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
            var length = requestStream.Length;
            var outputBuffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("ABCDEF");
            requestStream.Write(outputBuffer, 0, outputBuffer.Length);
            requestStream.Close();

            var webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

What I see is that a request being sent when I execute webRequest.GetRequestStream(), so by the time I get back a request stream - server has already sent a response (I have confirmed that with WireShark running on the server). And when I come to GetResponse - the response stream is empty, but that maybe a separate issue.

 

I can successfully do POST request using sockets, but I'd rather use HttpWebRequest.

Hi farmr,

You should be able to do this, no problem.

You will want to set the HttpWebRequest.Method, .ContentType and .ContentLength. Then use HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream--and write your POST data, etc.

Here is a quick link to the NETMF documentation for HttpWebRequest:
https://msdn.microso...y/hh435250.aspx

Welcome to the Netduino community,

Chris

Hi

 

Have a look at this post, towards the bottom it has some code which shows how to do a post

 

http://forums.netdui...-https-rest-url

 

@KiwiBryn

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