Question

I need to get the raw request string. Below is an example of the http request sent to the Controller. Actually, I need Post data (last line). How can I get that?

Notice that I don’t want to use the automatic JSON model binder. Actually, I need the raw JSON text

POST http://www.anUrl.com/CustomExport/Unscheduled HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://www.anUrl.com/CustomExport
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Host: localhost:8000
Content-Length: 102
Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache

{"runId":"1","fileDate":"8/20/2012","orderStartMinDate":"10/02/2012","orderStartMaxDate":"10/02/2012"}

This last line is what I need. This doesn’t come in

var input = new StreamReader(Request.InputStream).ReadToEnd();

Answer 1

At that point the stream has already been read to the end. You need to set the position of the InputStream back to the beginning before you can read it yourself.

Request.InputStream.Position = 0;
var input = new StreamReader(Request.InputStream).ReadToEnd();