Read Http Request into Byte array

Question

I\'m developing a web page that needs to take an HTTP Post Request and read it into a byte array for further processing. I\'m kind of stuck on how to do this, and I\'m stumped

Answer 1

I have a function that does it, by sending in the response stream:

private byte[] ReadFully(Stream input)
{
    try
    {
        int bytesBuffer = 1024;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[bytesBuffer];
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            int readBytes;
            while ((readBytes = input.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
            {
               ms.Write(buffer, 0, readBytes);
            }
            return ms.ToArray();
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        // Exception handling here:  Response.Write("Ex.: " + ex.Message);
    }
}

Since you have Stream str = curContext.Request.InputStream;, you could then just do:

byte[] bytes = ReadFully(str);

If you had done this:

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(someUri);
req.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

You would call it this way:

byte[] bytes = ReadFully(resp.GetResponseStream());