Question

In the HttpApplication.BeginRequest event, how can I read the entire raw request body? When I try to read it the InputStream is of 0 length, leading me to believe it was probably already read by ASP.NET.

I’ve tried to read the InputStream like this:

using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(context.Request.InputStream))
{
    string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

But all I get is an empty string. I’ve reset the position back to 0, but of course once the stream is read it’s gone for good, so that didn’t work. And finally, checking the length of the stream returns 0.

Edit: This is for POST requests.

Answer 1

Here’s what I ended up doing:

//Save the request content. (Unfortunately it can't be written to a stream directly.)
context.Request.SaveAs(filePath, false);