POSTing XML with non-ASCII characters

Question

I'm trying to patch RestSharp for it to be able to POST XMLs with non-ASCII characters as POST request body.

Here's how it gets written:

private void WriteRequestBody(HttpWebRequest webRequest) {
    if (HasBody) {
        webRequest.ContentLength = RequestBody.Length;

        var requestStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
        using (var writer = new StreamWriter(requestStream, Encoding.ASCII)) {
            writer.Write(RequestBody);
        }
    }
}

RequestBody is a string and when server actually tries to parse the request, all non-ASCII characters turn into ???.

Now, I do the following:

var encoding = Encoding.UTF8;

webRequest.ContentLength = encoding.GetByteCount(RequestBody);

var requestStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(requestStream, encoding)) {
    writer.Write(RequestBody);
}

But it throws IOException on Stream.Dispose() saying "Cannot close stream until all bytes are written."

How do I post this XML?

Answer 1

I haven't used RestSharp but looking explanation my guess is that the payload's ContentLength does not match the internal-string. XML uses UTF-8 escapes, so the payload could become larger. So on original string the representation could Content-Length could differ.

Maybe you calculate the Content-Length at a wrong place?