How to make an HTTP get request with parameters

c# httpwebrequest get
CruelIO picture CruelIO · Feb 5, 2009 · Viewed 215.7k times · Source

Is it possible to pass parameters with an HTTP get request? If so, how should I then do it? I have found an HTTP post requst (link). In that example the string postData is sent to a webserver. I would like to do the same using get instead. Google found this example on HTTP get here. However no parameters are sent to the web server.

Answer

wisbucky picture wisbucky · Jun 20, 2013

My preferred way is this. It handles the escaping and parsing for you.

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.QueryString.Add("param1", "value1");
webClient.QueryString.Add("param2", "value2");
string result = webClient.DownloadString("http://theurl.com");

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