I am looking for an example of how, in C#, to put a xml document in the message body of a http request and then parse the response. I've read the documentation but I would just like to see an example if there's one available. Does anyone have a example?
thanks
private static string WebRequestPostData(string url, string postData)
{
System.Net.WebRequest req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url);
req.ContentType = "text/xml";
req.Method = "POST";
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postData);
req.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream os = req.GetRequestStream())
{
os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
using (System.Net.WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse())
{
if (resp == null) return null;
using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream()))
{
return sr.ReadToEnd().Trim();
}
}
}
You should use the WebRequest
class.
There is an annotated sample available here to send data:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/debx8sh9.aspx