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

Using WebClient.UploadString or WebClient.UploadData you can POST data to the server easily. I’ll show an example using UploadData, since UploadString is used in the same manner as DownloadString.

byte[] bret = client.UploadData("http://www.website.com/post.php", "POST",
                System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("field1=value1&field2=value2") );
 
string sret = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bret);

More: http://www.daveamenta.com/2008-05/c-webclient-usage/