Run a curl request in c#

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I want to run a curl request given as

curl --data-binary @"/path/to/my.pdf" -H "Content-Type: application/pdf" -L "http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk"

This request simply sends a PDF file to http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk and in response this site return a XML file. How it can be done in C#?

What did you try to run it, you can just run that - what specifically did you want to achieve? — BugFinder
– BugFinder, Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 15:00
You've got to create a process and execute the command from within the process. Check out askubuntu.com/questions/506985/… — Blake Neal
– Blake Neal, Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 15:02
Have you looked at the WebRequest, WebClient, or HttpClient classes in .NET? — Ian Mercer
– Ian Mercer, Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 15:03
@ShahbazAhmadSahi that didnt answer what I said one tiny tiny bit — BugFinder
– BugFinder, Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 15:08

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:30:12Z

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If I understand correctly, you want to reproduce form POST action in C#. One way is to use HttpClient from this package (.NET 4.0) or directly if working in .NET 4.5+.

A fully working example can be found here. Basically you have to:

you initialize the http client
initialize form data
post the data
wait for the response

You can also set the content type of posted content (in your case application/pdf), by following the provided answer from this question.

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:30

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