Question

I am trying to use the HttpWebRequest for posting a byteArray at C#. i dont want to convert the bytes to string (or to ToBase64String). i just want to send the byteArray to the server as is. let say that my data is

byte[] byteArray = { 0, 1, 5, 4, 0, 1, 55, 0, 1, 5, 4, 0, 1}

what should i define at the post parameters?

request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"??? or request.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";???

I think I am missing something big….(BTW, the server is WampServer (Koana,PHP,MySQL)

Thanks!

Answer 1

An easier way to do this would be to use a WebClient:

byte[] byteArray = { 0, 1, 5, 4, 0, 1, 55, 0, 1, 5, 4, 0, 1};

using(WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{
    wc.UploadData(someURL, byteArray);
}

For binary data you usually would use application/octet-stream – but this is not required (depends on the server), i.e. the WebClient upload above does not specify a content-type header.