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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.