Generate http post request from controller

Question

Forgive me if this is a stupid question. I am not very experienced with Web programming. I am implementing the payment component of my .net mvc application. The component in

Answer 1

There certainly is a built in library to generate http requests. Below are two helpful functions that I quickly converted from VB.NET to C#. The first method performs a post the second performs a get. I hope you find them useful.

You'll want to make sure to import the System.Net namespace.

public static HttpWebResponse SendPostRequest(string data, string url) 
{

    //Data parameter Example
    //string data = "name=" + value

    HttpWebRequest httpRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
    httpRequest.Method = "POST";
    httpRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    httpRequest.ContentLength = data.Length;

    var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpRequest.GetRequestStream());
    streamWriter.Write(data);
    streamWriter.Close();

    return httpRequest.GetResponse();
}

public static HttpWebResponse SendGetRequest(string url) 
{

    HttpWebRequest httpRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
    httpRequest.Method = "GET";

    return httpRequest.GetResponse();
}