HttpWebRequest.Method Property
Gets or sets the method for the request.
Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.StringThe request method to use to contact the Internet resource. The default value is GET.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentException | No method is supplied. -or- The method string contains invalid characters. |
The Method property can be set to any of the HTTP 1.1 protocol verbs: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, or OPTIONS.
If the ContentLength property is set to any value other than -1, the Method property must be set to a protocol property that uploads data.
The following code example sets the Method property to POST.
// Set the 'Method' property of the 'Webrequest' to 'POST'.
myHttpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
Console.WriteLine ("\nPlease enter the data to be posted to the (http://www.contoso.com/codesnippets/next.asp) Uri :");
// Create a new string object to POST data to the Url.
string inputData = Console.ReadLine ();
string postData = "firstone=" + inputData;
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding ();
byte[] byte1 = encoding.GetBytes (postData);
// Set the content type of the data being posted.
myHttpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// Set the content length of the string being posted.
myHttpWebRequest.ContentLength = byte1.Length;
Stream newStream = myHttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream ();
newStream.Write (byte1, 0, byte1.Length);
Console.WriteLine ("The value of 'ContentLength' property after sending the data is {0}", myHttpWebRequest.ContentLength);
// Close the Stream object.
newStream.Close ();
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.