public string doPOST(Uri url, string postData)
{
Console.WriteLine("POST {0}", url);
UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
byte[] byteData = encoding.GetBytes(postData);
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Accept = "application/json";
request.ContentLength = byteData.Length;
if (authHandler != null)
{
authHandler.SetUpRequest(request);
}
Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(byteData, 0, byteData.Length);
requestStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
string responseStatus = response.StatusDescription;
Console.Out.WriteLine("status: {0}", responseStatus);
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string data = reader.ReadToEnd();
Console.Out.WriteLine(data);
reader.Close();
response.Close();
dataStream.Close();
return(data);
}