I would like to write a class in c# which should send an HTTP request (post) to a PHP file which is on my server in order to retrieve a json object.
This is the code I've got:
public void SendRequest(){
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)
WebRequest.Create("url");
// execute the request
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)
request.GetResponse();
}
Is that what I need? What do you think I should change or improve? Thank you for your help.
You need to post data and read the response:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("url");
string yourPostData = "Your post data";
string sreverResponseText;
byte[] postDataBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(yourPostData);
request.ContentLength = yourPostData.Length;
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.Method = "POST";
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
requestStream.Write(postDataBytes, 0, postDataBytes.Length);
using (response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
sreverResponseText = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
Now what you are looking for is in sreverResponseText, also you can access headers from response.Headers.ToString()
