How to add parameters into a WebRequest?
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();
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;
}