.NET WebClient.UploadValues vs WebClient.UploadData

Question

I am writing a class library to perform operations on a site outside my control. The site is accepting form-posts as input.

Can anyone tell me if there is a differen

Answer 1

Both "POST" the data to the server. If you use UploadValues, the values will be made available to the server in the Request.Form collection which is how a normal HTML form works. UploadData gives you more flexibility since no escaping is performed on your data. Its up to you to format the data in a way that the server will understand. As a consequence of this, you can use UploadData to duplicate the behavior of UploadValues.