I'd Like to be able to have my web service accept multiple POST parameters, some of which will be XML. Is this possible? The code below will generate a server error:
WebResponse resp = (WebResponse)req.GetResponse();
string programId = "1";
string statusMessages = statusMessagesXML.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);
string postData = "programId=" + programId;
postData += "&statusMessages=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(statusMessages);
string data = postData;
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = data.Length;
req.Method = "POST";
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream());
writer.Write(data);
writer.Flush();
writer.Close();
String result = null;
WebResponse resp = (WebResponse)req.GetResponse();
Stream readstream = resp.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader read = new StreamReader(readstream);
result = read.ReadToEnd();
Thanks.
The problem is:
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
This tells the server your data is URL-encoded, and '<' is a URL metacharacter. Either URLEncode your data, or don't tell the server the data is URLEncoded when it isn't.
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I am trying to get cognos report using siteminder token, below is my code.
string cognosUrl = "https://cognos.blah.com";
string reportPath = "/c10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll/rds/reportData/report/"; string reportId = "ildjfsldkf"; //prod
cognosUrl += string.Concat(reportPath, reportId,"?blahblah");
string targetUrl = cognosUrl;
string strFormvalues = string.Concat("TARGET=",targetUrl);
ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(targetUrl);
byte[] data = encoder.GetBytes(strFormvalues);
request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
request.Timeout = 120000;
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
request.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"";
request.Method = "POST";
request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Cookie,"SMSESSION="+stoken);
request.GetRequestStream().Write(data, 0, data.Length);
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string json = reader.ReadToEnd();
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json);
MemoryStream restream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
using (Stream output = File.OpenWrite(#"c:\\Projects\\Test_"+DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmssfff")+".txt"))
using (Stream input = restream)
{
if (input != null) input.CopyTo(output);
}
// var results = serializer.DeserializeObject(json);
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();
But I am getting response as " DPR-ERR-2101 Your request was invalid.Please contact your administrator."
I am not using C# myself, but a few recommendations while debugging this:
If you are only posting a URL, why not use GET instead of POST?
Try paste the targetURL in your browser, see what happens.
In my setup, when I paste the URL in the browser, I am always redirected before I receive an answer. (to a URL like, /cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll/rds/sessionOutput/conversationID/i292ED29A62474697AD44306A388F5BBB You are preventing that to happen, that might be an issue)
Hope that helps.
I have a webpage :http://180.92.171.80/ffs/data-flow-list-based/. After Filling Basin Name and River Name from Drop-down Menu, Station Names are appeared in Flood Forecasting Sites, when I select any of them, it automatically redirect to return that station's information. I need to save that information(Name, Date and present Water Level) on regular basis obviously with C#.
I have some knowledge in C#. I have tried some codes on Webpage posting and Name Value Collection but yet not successful.
Codes are:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.yoursite.com");
request.Method = "POST";
formContent = "FormValue1=" + someValue +
"&FormValue2=" + someValue2 +
"&FormValue=" + someValue2;
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(formContent);
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
dataStream.Close();
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string responseFromServer = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(reader.ReadToEnd());
//You may need HttpUtility.HtmlDecode depending on the response
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();
Another Code:
WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create("http://mysite/myform.aspx");
string postData = "item1=11111&item2=22222&Item3=33333";
byte[] send = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(postData);
req.Method = "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = send.Length;
Stream sout = req.GetRequestStream();
sout.Write(send, 0, send.Length);
sout.Flush();
sout.Close();
WebResponse res = req.GetResponse();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream());
string returnvalue = sr.ReadToEnd();
Can anyone help me in this regard?? It will be a great help for me.
Thanks in advance.
You can also read data through Jquery by their div or span value
I want to send string from my C# app to my PHP page and I tried some different solutions that i found in the internet. One of them is this:
C# code:
string url = "http://localhost:8080/test.php";
string str = "test";
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
req.Method = "POST";
string Data = "message=" + str;
byte[] postBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Data);
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = postBytes.Length;
Stream requestStream = req.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length);
requestStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string responseText = sr.ReadToEnd();
and PHP code:
foreach($_POST as $pdata)
echo $pdata;
But it's just a blank page. I dont know what the problem is.
I haven't used c# in a long time, but this should be the solution:
string url = "http://localhost:8080/test.php";
string str = "test";
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
req.Method = "POST";
string Data = "message=" + str;
UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding();
byte[] postBytes = utf8.GetBytes(Data);
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = postBytes.Length;
Stream requestStream = req.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length);
requestStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
var sr = new StreamReader(resStream);
string responseText = sr.ReadToEnd();
What I did was change the encoding from ASCII to UTF8. UTF8 is what application/x-www-form-urlencoded expects.
As for your php, I assume you have opening and closing brackets on your foreach method.
Edit:
Okay, well I noticed an error in your c#. You were getting the response stream twice. That might have caused some error, but here is how I would structure my php:
<?php
foreach($_POST as $key => $value){
echo $value . "<br>";
}
?>
I need to call a method from a webservice, so I've written this code:
private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/";
string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form";
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.
webRequest.ContentLength = 0;
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
But this method requires some parameters, as following:
Post data:
_username:'API USER', // api authentication username
_password:'API PASSWORD', // api authentication password
How can I add these parameters into this Webrequest?
Use stream to write content to webrequest
string data = "username=<value>&password=<value>"; //replace <value>
byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/";
string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form";
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.ContentLength = dataStream.Length;
Stream newStream=webRequest.GetRequestStream();
// Send the data.
newStream.Write(dataStream,0,dataStream.Length);
newStream.Close();
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
If these are the parameters of url-string then you need to add them through '?' and '&' chars, for example http://example.com/index.aspx?username=Api_user&password=Api_password.
If these are the parameters of POST request, then you need to create POST data and write it to request stream. Here is sample method:
private static string doRequestWithBytesPostData(string requestUri, string method, byte[] postData,
CookieContainer cookieContainer,
string userAgent, string acceptHeaderString,
string referer,
string contentType, out string responseUri)
{
var result = "";
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(requestUri))
{
var request = WebRequest.Create(requestUri) as HttpWebRequest;
if (request != null)
{
request.KeepAlive = true;
var cachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.BypassCache);
request.CachePolicy = cachePolicy;
request.Expect = null;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(method))
request.Method = method;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(acceptHeaderString))
request.Accept = acceptHeaderString;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(referer))
request.Referer = referer;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentType))
request.ContentType = contentType;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userAgent))
request.UserAgent = userAgent;
if (cookieContainer != null)
request.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;
request.Timeout = Constants.RequestTimeOut;
if (request.Method == "POST")
{
if (postData != null)
{
request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
using (var dataStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
dataStream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);
}
}
}
using (var httpWebResponse = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
if (httpWebResponse != null)
{
responseUri = httpWebResponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri;
cookieContainer.Add(httpWebResponse.Cookies);
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
return result;
}
}
}
}
responseUri = null;
return null;
}
For doing FORM posts, the best way is to use WebClient.UploadValues() with a POST method.
Hope this works
webRequest.Credentials= new NetworkCredential("API_User","API_Password");
I have a feeling that the username and password that you are sending should be part of the Authorization Header. So the code below shows you how to create the Base64 string of the username and password. I also included an example of sending the POST data. In my case it was a phone_number parameter.
string credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_username + ":" + _password));
HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Request);
webRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Basic {0}", credentials));
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post;
webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
webRequest.Proxy = null;
string data = "phone_number=19735559042";
byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
request.ContentLength = dataStream.Length;
Stream newStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(dataStream, 0, dataStream.Length);
newStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamreader = new StreamReader(stream);
string s = streamreader.ReadToEnd();
The code below differs from all other code because at the end it prints the response string in the console that the request returns. I learned in previous posts that the user doesn't get the response Stream and displays it.
//Visual Basic Implementation Request and Response String
Dim params = "key1=value1&key2=value2"
Dim byteArray = UTF8.GetBytes(params)
Dim url = "https://okay.com"
Dim client = WebRequest.Create(url)
client.Method = "POST"
client.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
client.ContentLength = byteArray.Length
Dim stream = client.GetRequestStream()
//sending the data
stream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length)
stream.Close()
//getting the full response in a stream
Dim response = client.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()
//reading the response
Dim result = New StreamReader(response)
//Writes response string to Console
Console.WriteLine(result.ReadToEnd())
Console.ReadKey()
I need to call a method from a webservice, so I've written this code:
private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/";
string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form";
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.
webRequest.ContentLength = 0;
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
But this method requires some parameters, as following:
Post data:
_username:'API USER', // api authentication username
_password:'API PASSWORD', // api authentication password
How can I add these parameters into this Webrequest?
Use stream to write content to webrequest
string data = "username=<value>&password=<value>"; //replace <value>
byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/";
string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form";
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.ContentLength = dataStream.Length;
Stream newStream=webRequest.GetRequestStream();
// Send the data.
newStream.Write(dataStream,0,dataStream.Length);
newStream.Close();
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
If these are the parameters of url-string then you need to add them through '?' and '&' chars, for example http://example.com/index.aspx?username=Api_user&password=Api_password.
If these are the parameters of POST request, then you need to create POST data and write it to request stream. Here is sample method:
private static string doRequestWithBytesPostData(string requestUri, string method, byte[] postData,
CookieContainer cookieContainer,
string userAgent, string acceptHeaderString,
string referer,
string contentType, out string responseUri)
{
var result = "";
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(requestUri))
{
var request = WebRequest.Create(requestUri) as HttpWebRequest;
if (request != null)
{
request.KeepAlive = true;
var cachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.BypassCache);
request.CachePolicy = cachePolicy;
request.Expect = null;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(method))
request.Method = method;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(acceptHeaderString))
request.Accept = acceptHeaderString;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(referer))
request.Referer = referer;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentType))
request.ContentType = contentType;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userAgent))
request.UserAgent = userAgent;
if (cookieContainer != null)
request.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;
request.Timeout = Constants.RequestTimeOut;
if (request.Method == "POST")
{
if (postData != null)
{
request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
using (var dataStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
dataStream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);
}
}
}
using (var httpWebResponse = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
if (httpWebResponse != null)
{
responseUri = httpWebResponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri;
cookieContainer.Add(httpWebResponse.Cookies);
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
return result;
}
}
}
}
responseUri = null;
return null;
}
For doing FORM posts, the best way is to use WebClient.UploadValues() with a POST method.
Hope this works
webRequest.Credentials= new NetworkCredential("API_User","API_Password");
I have a feeling that the username and password that you are sending should be part of the Authorization Header. So the code below shows you how to create the Base64 string of the username and password. I also included an example of sending the POST data. In my case it was a phone_number parameter.
string credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_username + ":" + _password));
HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Request);
webRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Basic {0}", credentials));
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post;
webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
webRequest.Proxy = null;
string data = "phone_number=19735559042";
byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
request.ContentLength = dataStream.Length;
Stream newStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(dataStream, 0, dataStream.Length);
newStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamreader = new StreamReader(stream);
string s = streamreader.ReadToEnd();
The code below differs from all other code because at the end it prints the response string in the console that the request returns. I learned in previous posts that the user doesn't get the response Stream and displays it.
//Visual Basic Implementation Request and Response String
Dim params = "key1=value1&key2=value2"
Dim byteArray = UTF8.GetBytes(params)
Dim url = "https://okay.com"
Dim client = WebRequest.Create(url)
client.Method = "POST"
client.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
client.ContentLength = byteArray.Length
Dim stream = client.GetRequestStream()
//sending the data
stream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length)
stream.Close()
//getting the full response in a stream
Dim response = client.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()
//reading the response
Dim result = New StreamReader(response)
//Writes response string to Console
Console.WriteLine(result.ReadToEnd())
Console.ReadKey()