I've been searching and reading around to that and couldn't fine anything really useful.
I'm writing an small C# win app that allows user to send files to a web server, not by FTP, but by HTTP using POST. Think of it like a web form but running on a windows application.
I have my HttpWebRequest object created using something like this
HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(uri) as HttpWebRequest
and also set the Method
, ContentType
and ContentLength
properties. But thats the far I can go.
This is my piece of code:
HttpWebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(uri) as HttpWebRequest;
req.KeepAlive = false;
req.Method = "POST";
req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(user.UserName, user.UserPassword);
req.PreAuthenticate = true;
req.ContentType = file.ContentType;
req.ContentLength = file.Length;
HttpWebResponse response = null;
try
{
response = req.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
So my question is basically how can I send a fie (text file, image, audio, etc) with C# via HTTP POST.
Thanks!
Using .NET 4.5 (or .NET 4.0 by adding the Microsoft.Net.Http package from NuGet) there is an easier way to simulate form requests. Here is an example:
private async Task<System.IO.Stream> Upload(string actionUrl, string paramString, Stream paramFileStream, byte [] paramFileBytes)
{
HttpContent stringContent = new StringContent(paramString);
HttpContent fileStreamContent = new StreamContent(paramFileStream);
HttpContent bytesContent = new ByteArrayContent(paramFileBytes);
using (var client = new HttpClient())
using (var formData = new MultipartFormDataContent())
{
formData.Add(stringContent, "param1", "param1");
formData.Add(fileStreamContent, "file1", "file1");
formData.Add(bytesContent, "file2", "file2");
var response = await client.PostAsync(actionUrl, formData);
if (!response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
return null;
}
return await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
}
}