Can I send variables in HttpWebRequest with a POST method

Question

I am a PHP developer doing a C# project

I have a C# winform project where the end user login to the software.

The login goes through a HttpWebRequest

            var user = txtuser.Text;
            var pass = txtpass.Text;
 

            var url = "https://www.example.com/directory/directory.php?";
            var var = "user=" + user + "&pass=" + pass;
            var URL = url + var;

            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL);
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
            // Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.  
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
            // Read the content.  
            var responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();

            // Display the content.  
            if (responseFromServer.Contains("Access") == true)
            {
                Thread.Sleep(4000);
                IsLoginTrue = true;

The connection is secured, but I am concerned about security because GET request are logged in plain text web logs.

Can I do an HttpWebRequest with a POST method?

That's a perfectly common scenario (sending data in a post request), so yes you can do it. Do you want to try this question again to be a bit more precise about the problem you're seeing? — ProgrammingLlama, Oct 24 '22 at 14:59
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4015346/12473121 Method C is what you are looking for — radoslawik, Oct 24 '22 at 15:08
I think your problem will be solved by looking here: [Setting a WebRequest's body data](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4256187/6300534) — Seyyed M.H Mousavi, Oct 24 '22 at 15:12
Logging is up to the server to worry about, not the client. `HttpWebRequest` is basically deprecated, consider moving to `HttpClient` — Charlieface, Oct 24 '22 at 21:15

Can I send variables in HttpWebRequest with a POST method

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