private HttpResponse ExecuteHttpRequestBackground()
{
// see -
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4982765/json-call-with-c-sharp
// http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev11.query?appId=Dev11IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k%28System.Net.HttpWebRequest.ContentType%29;k%28TargetFrameworkMoniker-.NETFramework,Version%3Dv4.5%29;k%28DevLang-csharp%29&rd=true
Log.Trace("ExecuteHttpRequest - uri: " + _uri + " , RequestMethod: " + _requestMethod + " , ContentType: " + _contentType + " , TimeOutMS: " + _timeoutMS.ToString() + " , Body: " + _body);
HttpResponse response = new HttpResponse("", HttpStatusCode.Unused);
try
{
var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(_uri);
webRequest.Method = _requestMethod;
webRequest.ContentType = _contentType; // "text/xml" or "application/json" or "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
webRequest.Timeout = _timeoutMS;
if (_credentials != null)
webRequest.Credentials = _credentials;
// POST or PUT with a body
if ((_requestMethod.ToUpper() == "POST" || _requestMethod.ToUpper() == "PUT") &&
!String.IsNullOrEmpty(_body))
{
//ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
//Byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(body);
//webRequest.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
//webRequest.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
//Stream requestStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
//requestStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
using (var requestWriter = new StreamWriter(webRequest.GetRequestStream()))
{
requestWriter.Write(_body);
}
}
var webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
response.Text = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
response.StatusCode = webResponse.StatusCode;
}
// close the Stream object
webResponse.Close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Log.TraceException("ExecuteHttpRequest", ex);
response.Exception = ex.Message;
return response;
}
return response;
}
void worker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
Response = ExecuteHttpRequestBackground();
}
public HttpResponse ExecuteHttpRequest()
{
HttpResponse response = new HttpResponse("", HttpStatusCode.Unused);
using (new WaitCursor())
{
response = ExecuteHttpRequestBackground();
}
return response;
}