Filling in HttpWebRequest object with form data

[Guest]

I am looking to post to a banking site form data in process to do with a checkout

I see that the HttpWebRequest object can befilled with header information and form data so that programmatically i can post form data and then process the HttpWebResponse however, I cannot find any examples of how to fill that object with the form data I need to submit

Does anyone know of any site listing example strings of form data so that I can see how to post the name/value pairs

Much thank
Erik

 

[bruce barker]

the post data format is:

<fieldName>=<value>&<fieldName>=<value>

the value should be url encoded, not html or xml.

example:

value1=hello&value2=hello%20there

be sure to set the header type form encoded

-- bruce (sqkwork.com)

I am looking to post to a banking site form data in process to do with a checkout.

I see that the HttpWebRequest object can befilled with header information

and form data so that programmatically i can post form data and then process
the HttpWebResponse however, I cannot find any examples of how to fill that
object with the form data I need to submit.

Does anyone know of any site listing example strings of form data so that

I can see how to post the name/value pairs?

 

[Guest]

Thanks. So to clarify. If i were to write something like the following, would that be on the right track

string postData="FirstFormField=" + FirstFormVariable +"&SecondFormField=" + SecondFormFiel
ASCIIEncoding encoding=new ASCIIEncoding()
byte[] byte1=encoding.GetBytes(postData)

myHttpWebRequest.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

myHttpWebRequest.ContentLength=postData.Length
Stream newStream=myHttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()

//Then parse the response somehow

 

[bruce barker]

almost:

string postData = string.Format("FirstFormField={0}&SecondFormField={1}",
HttpUtility.UrlEncode(FirstFormField),
HttpUtility.UrlEncode(SecondFormField));

the response will be returned html, that you need to parse.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

Thanks. So to clarify. If i were to write something like the following,

would that be on the right track?

string postData="FirstFormField=" + FirstFormVariable +"&SecondFormField=" + SecondFormField
ASCIIEncoding encoding=new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] byte1=encoding.GetBytes(postData);

myHttpWebRequest.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

myHttpWebRequest.ContentLength=postData.Length;
Stream newStream=myHttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream();

//Then parse the response somehow?