getting the request body inside HttpContext from a Middleware in asp.net core 2.0

Question

I am having a simple middleware which fetches the body of the request and store it in a string. It is reading fine the stream, but the issue is it wont call my controller which

Answer 1

You need to convert HttpContext.Request.Body from a forward only memory stream to a seekable stream, shown below.

//  Enable seeking
context.Request.EnableBuffering();
//  Read the stream as text
var bodyAsText = await new System.IO.StreamReader(context.Request.Body).ReadToEndAsync();
//  Set the position of the stream to 0 to enable rereading
context.Request.Body.Position = 0;