Http GET request from windows phone 8

Question

This code works on windows forms :

string URI = "http://localhost/1/index.php?dsa=232323";
string myParameters = "";

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{
    wc.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    string HtmlResult = wc.UploadString(URI, myParameters);
}

But i want to send http GET request from windows phone 8 . in wp 8 there are no methods UploadString() and etc...

You want to send `http GET` but use UploadString? – L.B Mar 15 '14 at 17:03 — L.B, Mar 15 '14 at 17:03
UploadString is deleted methond in windows phone 8 – Gtopuria Mar 15 '14 at 17:04 — Gtopuria, Mar 15 '14 at 17:04

L.B · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-15T17:48:26.240

Simply use HttpClient

using(HttpClient hc = new HttpClient())
{
    var response = await hc.PostAsync(url,new StringContent (yourString));
}

And for your case, you can upload FormUrlEncodedContent content instead of forming upload string manually.

using(HttpClient hc = new HttpClient())
{
    var keyValuePairs = new Dictionary<string,string>();
    // Fill keyValuePairs

    var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(keyValuePairs);

    var response = await hc.PostAsync(url, content);
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 17:03

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Try HTTP Client NuGet library. It works for me in Windows Phone 8.

answered Mar 15 '14 at 17:03

Pranit Kothari

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 15 '14 at 17:14

For GET method you can give the strings along with the URI itself.

private void YourCurrentMethod()
{
    string URI = "http://localhost/1/index.php?dsa=232323";
    string myParameters = "";

    URI = URI + "&" + myParameters; 

    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(URI);

    request.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

    request.BeginGetResponse(GetResponseCallback, request);
}

void GetResponseCallback(IAsyncResult result)
{
    HttpWebRequest request = result.AsyncState as HttpWebRequest;
    if (request != null)
    {
        try
        {
            WebResponse response = request.EndGetResponse(result);
            //Do what you want with this response
        }
        catch (WebException e)
        {
            return;
        }
    }
}

score -2 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Already answered here: Http Post for Windows Phone 8 -- you will want something like this:

// server to POST to
string url = "myserver.com/path/to/my/post";

// HTTP web request
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "text/plain; charset=utf-8";
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";

// Write the request Asynchronously 
using (var stream = await Task.Factory.FromAsync<Stream>(httpWebRequest.BeginGetRequestStream,          
                                                         httpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream, null))
{
   //create some json string
   string json = "{ \"my\" : \"json\" }";

   // convert json to byte array
   byte[] jsonAsBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json);

   // Write the bytes to the stream
   await stream.WriteAsync(jsonAsBytes, 0, jsonAsBytes.Length);
}

Http GET request from windows phone 8

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