public static void TestPOSTRequest()
{
WebRequest request;
WebResponse response;
StreamReader reader;
GZipStream gzipStream;
string responseText;
MSHTML.HTMLDocument htmlresponse = new MSHTML.HTMLDocument();
MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2 webresponse = (MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2)htmlresponse;
string body = "curr_id=24442&smlID=1169009&st_date=11%2F18%2F2016&end_date=11%2F18%2F2017&interval_sec=Daily&sort_col=date&sort_ord=DESC&action=historical_data";
try
{
request = WebRequest.Create("https://ca.investing.com/instruments/HistoricalDataAjax");
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
((HttpWebRequest)request).Accept = "*/*";
((HttpWebRequest)request).Method = "POST";
((HttpWebRequest)request).UserAgent = DEFAULT_USER_AGENT;
((HttpWebRequest)request).Referer = "http://ca.investing.com/equities/canada";
((HttpWebRequest)request).Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate");
((HttpWebRequest)request).Headers.Add("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
((HttpWebRequest)request).Timeout = 20000;
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8";
request.ContentLength = body.Length;
Stream rStream = request.GetRequestStream();
rStream.Write(body.Select(c => (byte)c).ToArray(), 0, body.Length);
response = request.GetResponse();
if (response.Headers.Get("Content-Encoding").ToLower().Contains("gzip"))
{
gzipStream = new GZipStream(response.GetResponseStream(), CompressionMode.Decompress);
reader = new StreamReader(gzipStream);
}
else
{
reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
}
responseText = reader.ReadToEnd();
webresponse.write(responseText);
while (webresponse.body == null)
{
System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents();
}
webresponse.close();
reader.Close();
response.Close();
}
catch (Exception)
{
/* Do nothing */
//int stophere = 1;
}
}
public static MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2 HTMLRequestResponse(String pUrl)
{
WebRequest request;
WebResponse response;
StreamReader reader;
GZipStream gzipStream;
string responseText;
MSHTML.HTMLDocument htmlresponse = new MSHTML.HTMLDocument();
MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2 webresponse = (MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2)htmlresponse;
try
{
if (pUrl != "")
{
request = WebRequest.Create(pUrl);
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
((HttpWebRequest)request).Accept = "*/*";
((HttpWebRequest)request).UserAgent = DEFAULT_USER_AGENT;
((HttpWebRequest)request).Referer = "http://ca.investing.com/equities/canada";
((HttpWebRequest)request).Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,br");
((HttpWebRequest)request).Headers.Add("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest");
((HttpWebRequest)request).KeepAlive = true;
((HttpWebRequest)request).Timeout = 20000;
response = request.GetResponse();
if (response.Headers.Get("Content-Encoding").ToLower().Contains("gzip"))
{
gzipStream = new GZipStream(response.GetResponseStream(), CompressionMode.Decompress);
reader = new StreamReader(gzipStream);
}
else
{
reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
}
responseText = reader.ReadToEnd();
webresponse.write(responseText);
while (webresponse.body == null)
{
System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents();
}
webresponse.close();
reader.Close();
response.Close();
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
/* Do nothing */
//int stophere = 1;
}
return(webresponse);
}
