Question

I have a form on my site. The user enters their e-mail and selects a location from a dropdown. I then need to post that data to an external site by hitting a url with the user’s location and e-mail in the query string.

I’m doing this like so:

string url = "http://www.site.com/page.aspx?location=" + location.Text + "&email=" + email.Text;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

My client says that I am not hitting their server, but when going through the debugger, I’m getting a response from their server. I also tried tracking what was happening by using Firebug, and I noticed that there was no POST made to that external site.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Make sure you’re doing a POST and not a GET method. This is some similar code that I’ve used in the past.

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL);        
                request.KeepAlive = false;
                request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version10;
                request.Method = "POST";
                request.Timeout = 30000;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();