ASP.NET MVC - Using cURL or similar to perform requests in application

Question

I\'m building an application in ASP.NET MVC (using C#) and I would like to know how I can perform calls like curl http://www.mywebsite.com/clients_list.xml inside my controller

Answer 1

Example code using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse :

public string GetResponseText(string url) {
    string responseText = String.Empty;
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Method = "GET";
    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) {
        responseText = sr.ReadToEnd();
    }
    return responseText;
}

To POST data :

public string GetResponseText(string url, string postData) {
    string responseText = String.Empty;
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
    using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream())) {
        sw.Write(postData);
    }
    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) {
        responseText = sr.ReadToEnd();
    }
    return responseText;
}