Posting Special charectors using HttpWebRequest

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Hi, I am using HttpWebequest. When i post text/HTML containing special charectors like '#' , post is successfully done. Can anybody help me? I am using following code, string strURL = 'some text with special charectors'; HttpWebRequest HWReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strURL); HWReq.Timeout = (int)cbTimeout.SelectedItem * 1000; HWReq.UserAgent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0b;Windows NT 5.0)'; HWReq.AllowAutoRedirect = true; HWReq.Method = 'POST'; HWReq.ContentType = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'; HWReq.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); HWReq.CookieContainer.Add(ccLogin1); HttpWebResponse HWResp = (HttpWebResponse)HWReq.GetResponse(); I am getting Error in the above last line. Thanks, Kiran Suthar.

Kiran Suthar · Answer

Hello, Thanks for the reply. I have tried your suggestion but unfortunately my problem didnt solved. I am getting System.Net.WebException, The renote server returned an error:(500) Internal server error. Actually I am posting contents of an HTML file, I have observed that contents of only first few lines(of HTML file) are posted. I have used content type as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as well as "text/html" but both has not worked. My code is as below, StreamReader srTemplate = new StreamReader(FilePath); string strTemplate = srTemplate.ReadToEnd(); string URL = "http://myurl..."; URL=Uri.EscapeUriString(URL); string strQueryString ="?Data1=" + strTemplate strQueryString = Uri.EscapeDataString(strQueryString); URL = URL +"?"+ strQueryString; HttpWebRequest HWReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL); HWReq.Timeout = 20000; HWReq.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0b;Windows NT 5.0)"; HWReq.AllowAutoRedirect = true; HWReq.Method = "POST"; HWReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; HWReq.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); HWReq.CookieContainer.Add(ccLogin); HttpWebResponse HWResp = (HttpWebResponse)HWReq.GetResponse(); Error occurs at the above last line. Any suggestion? Thanks, Kiran Suthar.

Antti · Answer

What exception message you get? You should always post the exception message, because we can't tell what the problem is without it. If i understood right, you want a URI to have special character in it, like in GET message? For example http://www.someaddress.com/index.htm?variable=Specialchars##HERE#¤% URI itself cannot contain special characters, but you can put special characters in get message if you convert the address this way: string uri = "http://www.someuri.com/index.htm"; string getData = "parameter=VALUE#####"; uri= Uri.EscapeUriString(uri); getData = Uri.EscapeDataString(getData); uri = uri + "?" + getData; That converts URI to its escaped representation, and thus strURI is in legal URI format.

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