Question

we’ve created a REST service (which should be called with a PUT request.
We’ve managed to call the service from a HTML page with Jquery (see below), but somehow we can not manage to do it from C#.
The ‘normal’ webrequest just doesn’t seem to work.

Should it be possible to issue a PUT request from a webrequest, and if so, how do we put the PUT data in the request?

The jquery code:

$("#PutUpdatePassword").on("click", function () {
            var data = {
                userId: "9769595975",
                Passold: "qwert1",
                Passnew: "qwert2"
            };
            var json = { 'updatePassword': data };
            $.ajax({
                type: "PUT",
                url: baseUrl + "/profile/190/updateprofile",
                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                dataType: "json",
                data: JSON.stringifyWcf(json),
                success: function () {
                    alert("Ok!");
                },
                error: function () {
                    alert("Fail!");
                }
            });
        });

Answer 1

var request = WebRequest.Create("http://example.com/profile/190/updateprofile");
request.Method = "PUT";
request.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
    var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    var payload = serializer.Serialize(new 
    {
        UserId = "9769595975",
        Passold = "qwert1",
        Passnew = "qwert2"
    });
    writer.Write(payload);
}

using (var response = request.GetResponse())
using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
    string result = reader.ReadToEnd();
    // do something with the results
}