console app HttpClient post to mvc web api

Question

I have a default mvc web api instance built from the Visual Studio 2012 template. It has the following routes and post method in the default ValuesController - the MVC site

Answer 1

Try the following code:

class Program {

    static void Main(string[] args) {

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        var content = new StringContent("=Here is my input string");
        content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        client.PostAsync("http://localhost:2451/api/values", content)
            .ContinueWith(task => {

                var response = task.Result;
                Console.WriteLine(response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);
            });

        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Have a look at the "Sending Simple Types" section of this blog post: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/working-with-http/sending-html-form-data,-part-1