How do you set the Content-Type header for an HttpClient request?

Question

I\'m trying to set the Content-Type header of an HttpClient object as required by an API I am calling.

I tried setting the Content-Ty

Answer 1

Call AddWithoutValidation instead of Add (see this MSDN link).

Alternatively, I'm guessing the API you are using really only requires this for POST or PUT requests (not ordinary GET requests). In that case, when you call HttpClient.PostAsync and pass in an HttpContent, set this on the Headers property of that HttpContent object.

Answer 2

var content = new JsonContent();
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
content.Headers.ContentType.Parameters.Add(new NameValueHeaderValue("charset", "utf-8"));
content.Headers.ContentType.Parameters.Add(new NameValueHeaderValue("IEEE754Compatible", "true"));

It's all what you need.

With using Newtonsoft.Json, if you need a content as json string.

public class JsonContent : HttpContent
   {
    private readonly MemoryStream _stream = new MemoryStream();
    ~JsonContent()
    {
        _stream.Dispose();
    }

    public JsonContent(object value)
    {
        Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
        using (var contexStream = new MemoryStream())
        using (var jw = new JsonTextWriter(new StreamWriter(contexStream)) { Formatting = Formatting.Indented })
        {
            var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
            serializer.Serialize(jw, value);
            jw.Flush();
            contexStream.Position = 0;
            contexStream.WriteTo(_stream);
        }
        _stream.Position = 0;

    }

    private JsonContent(string content)
    {
        Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
        using (var contexStream = new MemoryStream())
        using (var sw = new StreamWriter(contexStream))
        {
            sw.Write(content);
            sw.Flush();
            contexStream.Position = 0;
            contexStream.WriteTo(_stream);
        }
        _stream.Position = 0;
    }

    protected override Task SerializeToStreamAsync(Stream stream, TransportContext context)
    {
        return _stream.CopyToAsync(stream);
    }

    protected override bool TryComputeLength(out long length)
    {
        length = _stream.Length;
        return true;
    }

    public static HttpContent FromFile(string filepath)
    {
        var content = File.ReadAllText(filepath);
        return new JsonContent(content);
    }
    public string ToJsonString()
    {
        return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(_stream.GetBuffer(), 0, _stream.GetBuffer().Length).Trim();
    }
}

Answer 3

I find it most simple and easy to understand in the following way:

async Task SendPostRequest()
{
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    var requestContent = new StringContent(<content>);
    requestContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
    var response = await client.PostAsync(<url>, requestContent);
    var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
...

SendPostRequest().Wait();

Answer 4

Ok, it's not HTTPClient but if u can use it, WebClient is quite easy:

using (var client = new System.Net.WebClient())
 {
    client.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/json");
    client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
    client.DownloadString(...);
 }

Answer 5

You can use this it will be work!

HttpRequestMessage msg = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get,"URL");
msg.Content = new StringContent(string.Empty, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

HttpResponseMessage response = await _httpClient.SendAsync(msg);
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

string json = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Answer 6

If you don't mind a small library dependency, Flurl.Http [disclosure: I'm the author] makes this uber-simple. Its PostJsonAsync method takes care of both serializing the content and setting the content-type header, and ReceiveJson deserializes the response. If the accept header is required you'll need to set that yourself, but Flurl provides a pretty clean way to do that too:

using Flurl.Http;

var result = await "http://example.com/"
    .WithHeader("Accept", "application/json")
    .PostJsonAsync(new { ... })
    .ReceiveJson<TResult>();

Flurl uses HttpClient and Json.NET under the hood, and it's a PCL so it'll work on a variety of platforms.

PM> Install-Package Flurl.Http