How to use WebRequest to POST some data and read response?

Question

Need to have the server make a POST to an API, how do I add POST values to a WebRequest object and how do I send it and get the response (it will be a string) out?

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Answer 1

Here's an example of posting to a web service using the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    string query = "?q=" + latitude + "%2C" + longitude + "&format=xml&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    string weatherservice = "http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v1/marine.ashx" + query;
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(weatherservice);
    request.Referer = "http://www.yourdomain.com";
    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
    Char[] readBuffer = new Char[256];
    int count = reader.Read(readBuffer, 0, 256);

    while (count > 0)
    {
        String output = new String(readBuffer, 0, count);
        sb.Append(output);
        count = reader.Read(readBuffer, 0, 256);
    }
    string xml = sb.ToString();