HttpWebRequest Class Text + File in Vb.net

Question

How to create an POST with the HttpWebRequest Class in VB.net (2008)? I can find exemples with text only but not with text and files. Thanks.

Answer 1

You should be able to read the file in a buffer, and upload it to the server. It is not that difficult.

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Method  "POST";
Stream fileStream = File.OpenRead("filename");
byte [] buffer = new byte[1024];
Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();

int read = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
while(read > 0)
{
reqStream.Write(buffer,0,read);
read  fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
}

reqStream.Close();
fileStream.Close();

// now get the response...

Does that help?