Google Checkout HTTP Post with ASP.net

Question

I have 2 pages I created in ASP.net(C#). The first one(called shoppingcart.asp) has a buy it now button. The second one(called processpay.asp) just waits for google checkout to send an HTTP request to it to process the payment. What I would like to do send a post statement to google checkout with a couple of variables that I want passed back to processpay.asp(ie clientid=3&itemid=10), but I don't know how to format the POST HTTP statement or what settings I have to change in google checkout to make it work.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Google Checkout has sample code and a tutorial on how to integrate it with any .NET application:

• Google Checkout API - Google Checkout Sample Code for .NET

Make sure to check the section titled: "Integrating the Sample Code into your Web Application".

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However, if you prefer to use a server-side POST, you may want to check the following method which submits an HTTP post and returns the response as a string:

using System.Net;

string HttpPost (string parameters)
{ 
   WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://checkout.google.com/buttons/checkout.gif?merchant_id=1234567890");
   webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
   webRequest.Method = "POST";

   byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(parameters);

   Stream os = null;

   try
   { 
      webRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
      os = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
      os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);      
   }
   catch (WebException e)
   {
      // handle e.Message
   }
   finally
   {
      if (os != null)
      {
         os.Close();
      }
   }

   try
   { 
      // get the response

      WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

      if (webResponse == null) 
      { 
          return null; 
      }

      StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream());

      return sr.ReadToEnd().Trim();
   }
   catch (WebException e)
   {
      // handle e.Message
   }

   return null;
} 

Parameters need to be passed in the form: name1=value1&name2=value2