Method ExtInternet.Post

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Overload

Sends a POST request to the specified URL, and gets the response.

public static HttpResponseMessage Post(this HttpClient t, string url, HttpContent content, IEnumerable<string> headers = null, bool dontWait = false, string auth = null, Action<HttpRequestMessage> also = null)

Parameters

t  (HttpClient)

url  (string) URL.

content  (HttpContent) Data to post. Usually web form data (see internet.formContent) or JSON (see internet.jsonContent). Can be null.

headers  (IEnumerable<string>) null or request headers like ["name1: value1", "name2: value2"]. Also you can add headers to System.Net.Http.HttpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders, like internet.http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("User-Agent", "Script/1.0");.

dontWait  (bool) Use System.Net.Http.HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead.

auth  (string) String like "username:password" for basic authentication. Adds Authorization header.

also  (Action<HttpRequestMessage>) Can set more properties for the request.

Returns

HttpResponseMessage An HttpResponseMessage object that can be used to get response content (web page HTML, JSON, file, etc), headers etc. To get content use ExtInternet.Text etc.

Exceptions

Exception Exceptions of System.Net.Http.HttpClient.Send. If headers used, exceptions of ExtInternet.AddMany.

Examples

Post form data. Note: the using will close the file stream. Don't need it when content does not contain files.

using var content = internet.formContent(("name1", "value1"), ("name2", "value2")).AddFile("name3", @"C:\Test\file.png");
string s = internet.http.Post("https://httpbin.org/anything", content).Text();

Post object as JSON.

var v = new POINT(1, 2);
string s = internet.http.Post("https://httpbin.org/anything", internet.jsonContent(v)).Text();
print.it(s);