ASP.NET MVC Read Raw JSON Post Data

Question

This is driving me crazy. I\'m using ASP.NET MVC. I have a controller with an HttpPost action that acts as a callback URL that is called by another server (not under my cont

Answer 1

Your initial approach should work if you take into consideration the fact, that ASP.NET MVC model binding has already read the stream, so you should rewind it:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Callback(string secret)
{
    Request.InputStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    string jsonData = new StreamReader(Request.InputStream).ReadToEnd();

    // ...
}