Using HttpWebRequest to POST data/upload image using multipart/form-data

Question

I am trying to use the ImageShack API to upload images. To use it, I am supposed to POST the image using multipart/form-data. I did it like ...

Answer 1

I finally got it with the following code ...

var boundary = "------------------------" + DateTime.Now.Ticks;
var newLine = Environment.NewLine;
var propFormat = "--" + boundary + newLine +
                    "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"" + newLine + newLine + 
                    "{1}" + newLine;
var fileHeaderFormat = "--" + boundary + newLine +
                        "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"; filename=\"{1}\"" + newLine;

var req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://jm/php/upload.php");
req.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post;
req.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary;

using (var reqStream = req.GetRequestStream()) {
    var reqWriter = new StreamWriter(reqStream);
    var tmp = string.Format(propFormat, "str1", "hello world");
    reqWriter.Write(tmp);
    tmp = string.Format(propFormat, "str2", "hello world 2");
    reqWriter.Write(tmp);
    reqWriter.Write("--" + boundary + "--");
    reqWriter.Flush();
}
var res = req.GetResponse();
using (var resStream = res.GetResponseStream()) {
    var reader = new StreamReader(resStream);
    txt1.Text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

Notice boundaries have to begin with -- {boundary declared in ContentType} and ending boundary must begin & end with -- . in my case, I originally used

var propFormat = boundary + newLine +
                    "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"" + newLine + newLine + 
                    "{1}" + newLine;

replace it with

var propFormat = "--" + boundary + newLine +
                    "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"" + newLine + newLine + 
                    "{1}" + newLine;

and everything works