How to post data to specific URL using WebClient in C#

Question

I need to use \"HTTP Post\" with WebClient to post some data to a specific URL I have.

Now, I know this can be accomplished with WebRequest but for some reasons I wa

Answer 1

There is a built in method called UploadValues that can send HTTP POST (or any kind of HTTP methods) AND handles the construction of request body (concatenating parameters with "&" and escaping characters by url encoding) in proper form data format:

using(WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
    var reqparm = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
    reqparm.Add("param1", " kinds & of = ? strings");
    reqparm.Add("param2", "escaping is already handled");
    byte[] responsebytes = client.UploadValues("http://localhost", "POST", reqparm);
    string responsebody = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(responsebytes);
}