How do I get the raw request body from the Request.Content object using .net 4 api endpoint

Question

I\'m trying to capture the raw request data for accountability and want to pull the request body content out of the Request object.

I\'ve seen suggestions doing a Re

Answer 1

In your comment on @Kenneth's answer you're saying that ReadAsStringAsync() is returning empty string.

That's because you (or something - like model binder) already read the content, so position of internal stream in Request.Content is on the end.

What you can do is this:

public static string RequestBody()
{
    var bodyStream = new StreamReader(HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream);
    bodyStream.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    var bodyText = bodyStream.ReadToEnd();
    return bodyText;
}