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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:13:16+00:00

I have a HttpListenerRequest which was initiated from a html <form> that was posted.

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I have a HttpListenerRequest which was initiated from a html <form> that was posted. I need to know how to get the posted form values + the uploaded files. Does anyone know of an example to save me the time doing it for myself? I’ve had a google around but not found anything of use.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Odd that an accepted answer with full source code + a link to download
    a working demo would result in a negative score and votes to be
    deleted. If I were the kind of person who cared about my score I’d
    have deleted this answer, and then nobody would have benefited.
    Psychology, eh 🙂

    I found a few examples of web servers for MonoTouch but none of them parsed the data sent in a POST request. I looked around the web and was unable to find any examples of how to achieve this. So now that I’ve written it myself I’ve decided to share my own implementation. This includes not only the code for processing the form post data but also for registering request handlers etc.

    Here is an example of how you would use the web server 

     public BookUploadViewController() 
   : base("BookUploadViewController", null)
 {
   RequestHandler = new DefaultRequestHandler();
   var defaultActionHandlerFactory = new DefaultActionHandlerFactory();
   RegisterActionHandlers(defaultActionHandlerFactory);
   RequestHandler.AddActionHandlerFactory(defaultActionHandlerFactory);

   WebServer = new EmbeddedWebServer(RequestHandler);
 }

 void RegisterActionHandlers(DefaultActionHandlerFactory factory)
 {
   factory.RegisterHandler(
     request => request.RawUrl == "/",
     request => new IndexActionHandler(request)
     );
   factory.RegisterHandler(
     request => 
       string.Compare(request.RawUrl, "/Upload", true) == 0 && 
       string.Compare(request.HttpMethod, "POST", true) == 0,
     request => new UploadActionHandler(request)
     );
 }

 public override void ViewDidAppear(bool animated)
 {
   base.ViewDidAppear(animated);
   StatusLabel.Text = string.Format("Server listening on\r\nhttp://{0}:8080", GetIPAddress ());
   WebServer.Start(8080);
 }

 public override void ViewDidDisappear (bool animated)
 {
   base.ViewDidDisappear(animated);
   WebServer.Stop();
 }

    And here are two app specific examples of request handlers

     class IndexActionHandler : DefaultActionHandler
 {
   public IndexActionHandler(HttpListenerRequest request)
     : base(request)
   {
   }

   public override ActionResult Execute()
   {
     var result = new HtmlResult();
     result.AppendLine("<html>");
     result.AppendLine("<body>");
     result.AppendLine("<h1>Upload an image</h1>");
     result.AppendLine("<form action='/Upload' enctype='multipart/form-data' method='post'>");
     result.AppendLine ("<input name='Image' type='file'/><br/>");
     result.AppendLine("<input name='Upload' type='submit' text='Upload'/>");
     result.AppendLine("</form>");
     result.AppendLine("</body>");
     result.AppendLine("</html>");
     return result;
   }
 }

 class UploadActionHandler : DefaultActionHandler
 {
   public UploadActionHandler(HttpListenerRequest request)
     : base(request)
   {
   }

   public override ActionResult Execute()
   {
     string errorMessage = null;
     var file = FormData.GetFile("Image");
     if (file == null 
       || file.FileData == null 
       || file.FileData.Length == 0 
       || string.IsNullOrEmpty(file.FileName))
       errorMessage = "No image uploaded";

     if (errorMessage == null)
       ProcessFile(file);

     var result = new HtmlResult();
     result.AppendLine("<html>");
     result.AppendLine("<body>");
     if (errorMessage == null)
       result.AppendLine("<h1>File uploaded successfully</h1>");
     else
     {
       result.AppendLine("<h1>Error</h1>");
       result.AppendLine("<h2>" + errorMessage + "</h2>");
     }
     result.AppendLine("</body>");
     result.AppendLine("</html>");
     return result;
   }

   void ProcessFile(MultiPartStreamFileValue postedFile)
   {
     string fileName = "Where to save the file";
     using (var fileStream = 
       new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
     {
       fileStream.Write(postedFile.FileData, 0, postedFile.FileData.Length);
     }
   }
 }

    You can download the source code here https://sites.google.com/site/mrpmorris/EmbeddedWebServerMT.zip

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