I need to post data to a URL (https://somesite.com) to download file in responseStrem based on the parameters I posted. How can I do that using a C# console application?
Parameters: filename, userid, password, type
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
namespace WebserverInteractionClassLibrary
{
public class RequestManager
{
public string LastResponse { protected set; get; }
CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
internal string GetCookieValue(Uri SiteUri,string name)
{
Cookie cookie = cookies.GetCookies(SiteUri)[name];
return (cookie == null) ? null : cookie.Value;
}
public string GetResponseContent(HttpWebResponse response)
{
if (response == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("response");
}
Stream dataStream = null;
StreamReader reader = null;
string responseFromServer = null;
try
{
// Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
// Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
// Read the content.
responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
// Cleanup the streams and the response.
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
finally
{
if (reader != null)
{
reader.Close();
}
if (dataStream != null)
{
dataStream.Close();
}
response.Close();
}
LastResponse = responseFromServer;
return responseFromServer;
}
public HttpWebResponse SendPOSTRequest(string uri, string content, string login, string password, bool allowAutoRedirect)
{
HttpWebRequest request = GeneratePOSTRequest(uri, content, login, password, allowAutoRedirect);
return GetResponse(request);
}
public HttpWebResponse SendGETRequest(string uri, string login, string password, bool allowAutoRedirect)
{
HttpWebRequest request = GenerateGETRequest(uri, login, password, allowAutoRedirect);
return GetResponse(request);
}
public HttpWebResponse SendRequest(string uri, string content, string method, string login, string password, bool allowAutoRedirect)
{
HttpWebRequest request = GenerateRequest(uri, content, method, login, password, allowAutoRedirect);
return GetResponse(request);
}
public HttpWebRequest GenerateGETRequest(string uri, string login, string password, bool allowAutoRedirect)
{
return GenerateRequest(uri, null, "GET", null, null, allowAutoRedirect);
}
public HttpWebRequest GeneratePOSTRequest(string uri, string content, string login, string password, bool allowAutoRedirect)
{
return GenerateRequest(uri, content, "POST", null, null, allowAutoRedirect);
}
internal HttpWebRequest GenerateRequest(string uri, string content, string method, string login, string password, bool allowAutoRedirect)
{
if (uri == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("uri");
}
// Create a request using a URL that can receive a post.
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
// Set the Method property of the request to POST.
request.Method = method;
// Set cookie container to maintain cookies
request.CookieContainer = cookies;
request.AllowAutoRedirect = allowAutoRedirect;
// If login is empty use defaul credentials
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(login))
{
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
}
else
{
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(login, password);
}
if (method == "POST")
{
// Convert POST data to a byte array.
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(content);
// Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
// Get the request stream.
Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
// Write the data to the request stream.
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
// Close the Stream object.
dataStream.Close();
}
return request;
}
internal HttpWebResponse GetResponse(HttpWebRequest request)
{
if (request == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("request");
}
HttpWebResponse response = null;
try
{
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
cookies.Add(response.Cookies);
// Print the properties of each cookie.
Console.WriteLine("\nCookies: ");
foreach (Cookie cook in cookies.GetCookies(request.RequestUri))
{
Console.WriteLine("Domain: {0}, String: {1}", cook.Domain, cook.ToString());
}
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Web exception occurred. Status code: {0}", ex.Status);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
return response;
}
}
}
1 Comment
Jon Schneider
It looks like the GenerateRequest method ignores its allowAutoRedirect parameter value, and always uses a value of false instead?
Take a look at the System.Net.WebClient class, it can be used to issue requests and handle their responses, as well as to download files:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HTTPPOSTsAndHTTPGETsWithWebClientAndCAndFakingAPostBack.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient(VS.90).aspx
Comments
For this you can simply use the "HttpWebRequest" and "HttpWebResponse" classes in .net.
Below is a sample console app I wrote to demonstrate how easy this is.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
namespace Test
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string url = "www.somewhere.com";
string fileName = @"C:\output.file";
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Timeout = 5000;
try
{
using (WebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
{
byte[] bytes = ReadFully(response.GetResponseStream());
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
}
}
catch (WebException)
{
Console.WriteLine("Error Occured");
}
}
public static byte[] ReadFully(Stream input)
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[16 * 1024];
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
int read;
while ((read = input.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
{
ms.Write(buffer, 0, read);
}
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
}
}
Enjoy!
2 Comments
user470310
Thanks. I think your code is for downloading but I need to know also about posting of data to remote server.
yaronkl
I need to send an request XML to server and read a response. how to I send the request? Do I concatanate it somehow to the URL? for example: Site URL: remoteserver.com XML to send : <root><request v1="abc" v2="123" /></root>
HttpWebRequest request =(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("some url");
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 7.1; Trident/5.0)";
request.Accept = "/";
request.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
request.Proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
doc.Save(request.GetRequestStream());
HttpWebResponse resp = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
Hope it helps
Comments
Insted of using System.Net.WebClient I would recommend to have a look on System.Net.Http.HttpClient which was introduced with net 4.5 and makes your life much easier.
Also microsoft recommends to use the HttpClient on this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient(VS.90).aspx
An example could look like this:
var client = new HttpClient();
var content = new MultipartFormDataContent
{
{ new StringContent("myUserId"), "userid"},
{ new StringContent("myFileName"), "filename"},
{ new StringContent("myPassword"), "password"},
{ new StringContent("myType"), "type"}
};
var responseMessage = await client.PostAsync("some url", content);
var stream = await responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
