System.Net.HttpWebRequest

Added in .NET Framework 1.1
This is derived from the System.Net.WebRequest class.

GetResponse - Options

System.Net.HttpWebRequest oHttpWebRequest; 
.Method = "GET" 
.Method = "POST" 

.AllowAutoRedirect = true; 

.AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip; 

.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials 
.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("userid", "password") 
.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("userid", "password","INTRANET") 

.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer(); 

.ContentType = "text/xml"; 
.ContentType = "application/json"; 

.ContentLength = 

.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8 

.Headers.Add(System.Net.HttpRequestHeader.Accept, Accept); 

.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 200 

.TimeOut = 10000 
.TimeOut = (int)System.Timespan.FromMinutes(5).TotalMilliseconds; 

.UserDefaultCredentials = true; 

Example REST - GET

var result = null; 
string restURL = "https://"; 
string returnText = ""; 

var request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create(restURL); 

request.AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip; 
request.Method = "GET"; 
request.ContentType = "application/json"; 
request.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer(); 
request.AllowAutoRedirect = true; 
request.UseDefaultCredentials = true; 
request.Timeout = (int)TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1).TotalMilliseconds; 

using (var streamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, true)) 
{ 
   System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer js = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer(); 

   string sText = streamReader.ReadToEnd(); 
   result = ("")js.Deserialize(sText, typeof("")); 
   if (result != null) 
   { 
      returnText = result.getMethod;  // this could return HTML or XML 
   } 
} 

System.IO.FileStream fileStream = System.IO.File.Create("C:\temp\myfile"); 
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(returnText); 
fileStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Count()); 
fileStream.Flush(); 
fileStream.Close(); 

Example REST - POST

var restService = null; 
string restURL = "https://"; 
string returnText = ""; 

var request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create(restURL); 
request.AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip; 
request.Method = "POST"; 
request.ContentType = "application/json"; 
request.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer(); 
request.AllowAutoRedirect = true; 
request.UseDefaultCredentials = true; 
request.Timeout = (int)TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1).TotalMilliseconds; 

System.IO.StreamWriter oStreamWriter; 
oStreamWriter = new System.IO.StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream(), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII); 
oStreamWriter.Write(DATA); 
oStreamWriter.Close(); 

using (var oStreamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, true)) 
{ 

} 

Example SOAP - GET

System.Net.HttpWebResponse oResponse; 
oResponse = oHttpWebRequest.GetResponse 

System.IO.StreamReader oStreamReader; 
oStreamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(oResponse.GetResponseStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, true) 

oStreamReader.ReadToEnd(); 

Example SOAP - POST

Methods

Properties