C# HttpWebRequest of type “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” - how to send '&' character in content body?

Question

I\'m writing a small API-connected application in C#.

I connect to a API which has a method that takes a long string, the contents of a calendar(ics) file.

I

Answer 1

Since your content-type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded you'll need to encode the POST body, especially if it contains characters like & which have special meaning in a form.

Try passing your string through HttpUtility.UrlEncode before writing it to the request stream.

Here are a couple links for reference.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding