C# HttpClient 4.5 multipart/form-data upload

Question

Does anyone know how to use the HttpClient in .Net 4.5 with multipart/form-data upload?

I couldn\'t find any examples on the internet.

Answer 1

X509Certificate clientKey1 = null;
clientKey1 = new X509Certificate(AppSetting["certificatePath"],
AppSetting["pswd"]);
string url = "https://EndPointAddress";
FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(FilePath);
var streamContent = new StreamContent(fs);

var FileContent = new ByteArrayContent(streamContent.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result);
FileContent.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("ContentType");
var handler = new WebRequestHandler();


handler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Manual;
handler.ClientCertificates.Add(clientKey1);
handler.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = (httpRequestMessage, cert, cetChain, policyErrors) =>
{
    return true;
};


using (var client = new HttpClient(handler))
{
    // Post it
    HttpResponseMessage httpResponseMessage = client.PostAsync(url, FileContent).Result;

    if (!httpResponseMessage.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        string ss = httpResponseMessage.StatusCode.ToString();
    }
}

Answer 2

It works more or less like this (example using an image/jpg file):

async public Task<HttpResponseMessage> UploadImage(string url, byte[] ImageData)
{
    var requestContent = new MultipartFormDataContent(); 
    //    here you can specify boundary if you need---^
    var imageContent = new ByteArrayContent(ImageData);
    imageContent.Headers.ContentType = 
        MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("image/jpeg");

    requestContent.Add(imageContent, "image", "image.jpg");

    return await client.PostAsync(url, requestContent);
}

(You can requestContent.Add() whatever you want, take a look at the HttpContent descendant to see available types to pass in)

When completed, you'll find the response content inside HttpResponseMessage.Content that you can consume with HttpContent.ReadAs*Async.

Answer 3

Try this its working for me.

private static async Task<object> Upload(string actionUrl)
{
    Image newImage = Image.FromFile(@"Absolute Path of image");
    ImageConverter _imageConverter = new ImageConverter();
    byte[] paramFileStream= (byte[])_imageConverter.ConvertTo(newImage, typeof(byte[]));

    var formContent = new MultipartFormDataContent
    {
        // Send form text values here
        {new StringContent("value1"),"key1"},
        {new StringContent("value2"),"key2" },
        // Send Image Here
        {new StreamContent(new MemoryStream(paramFileStream)),"imagekey","filename.jpg"}
    };

    var myHttpClient = new HttpClient();
    var response = await myHttpClient.PostAsync(actionUrl.ToString(), formContent);
    string stringContent = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

    return response;
}

Answer 4

Example with preloader Dotnet 3.0 Core

ProgressMessageHandler processMessageHander = new ProgressMessageHandler();

processMessageHander.HttpSendProgress += (s, e) =>
{
    if (e.ProgressPercentage > 0)
    {
        ProgressPercentage = e.ProgressPercentage;
        TotalBytes = e.TotalBytes;
        progressAction?.Invoke(progressFile);
    }
};

using (var client = HttpClientFactory.Create(processMessageHander))
{
    var uri = new Uri(transfer.BackEndUrl);
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization =
    new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", AccessToken);

    using (MultipartFormDataContent multiForm = new MultipartFormDataContent())
    {
        multiForm.Add(new StringContent(FileId), "FileId");
        multiForm.Add(new StringContent(FileName), "FileName");
        string hash = "";

        using (MD5 md5Hash = MD5.Create())
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var data in md5Hash.ComputeHash(File.ReadAllBytes(FullName)))
            {
                sb.Append(data.ToString("x2"));
            }
            hash = result.ToString();
        }
        multiForm.Add(new StringContent(hash), "Hash");

        using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(FullName))
        {
            multiForm.Add(new StreamContent(fs), "file", Path.GetFileName(FullName));
            var response = await client.PostAsync(uri, multiForm);
            progressFile.Message = response.ToString();

            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode) {
                progressAction?.Invoke(progressFile);
            } else {
                progressErrorAction?.Invoke(progressFile);
            }
            response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
        }
    }
}

Answer 5

public async Task<object> PassImageWithText(IFormFile files)
{
    byte[] data;
    string result = "";
    ByteArrayContent bytes;

    MultipartFormDataContent multiForm = new MultipartFormDataContent();

    try
    {
        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            using (var br = new BinaryReader(files.OpenReadStream()))
            {
                data = br.ReadBytes((int)files.OpenReadStream().Length);
            }

            bytes = new ByteArrayContent(data);
            multiForm.Add(bytes, "files", files.FileName);
            multiForm.Add(new StringContent("value1"), "key1");
            multiForm.Add(new StringContent("value2"), "key2");

            var res = await client.PostAsync(_MEDIA_ADD_IMG_URL, multiForm);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw new Exception(e.ToString());
    }

    return result;
}

Answer 6

Here's a complete sample that worked for me. The boundary value in the request is added automatically by .NET.

var url = "http://localhost/api/v1/yourendpointhere";
var filePath = @"C:\path\to\image.jpg";

HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
MultipartFormDataContent form = new MultipartFormDataContent();

FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(filePath);
var streamContent = new StreamContent(fs);

var imageContent = new ByteArrayContent(streamContent.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result);
imageContent.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("multipart/form-data");

form.Add(imageContent, "image", Path.GetFileName(filePath));
var response = httpClient.PostAsync(url, form).Result;