Question

I need to check the RequestType of an HttpRequest in ASP.NET (or WebRequest.Method). I know that I can just use the string values ‘POST‘ or ‘GET‘ for the request type, but I could have sworn there was a constant somewhere in some class in .NET that contained the values.

Out of curiosity I was wondering if anyone knew what class these string constants for GET and POST were in. I’ve tried searching online but I’ve had no luck, so I thought I’d ask here.

Answer 1

System.Net.WebRequestMethods.Http     .Connect = 'CONNECT'     .Get = 'GET'     .Head = 'HEAD'     .MkCol = 'MKCOL'     .Post = 'POST'     .Put = 'PUT' 

Ultimately, though; since const expressions are burned into the caller, this is identical to using ‘GET’ etc, just without the risk of a typo.