myspace-nu/httpClient

A generic http client class

MySpace.httpClient

A generic http client class

Installation

Add a reference to the class .dll in your project. For convenience, also add the namespace.

using MySpace.httpClient;

Examples

GET request

httpRequest myhttp = new httpRequest();
myhttp.URI = "http://httpbin.org/get";
httpResponse resp = myhttp.get();
Console.Write(resp.content);

POST request

httpRequest myhttp = new httpRequest();
myhttp.URI = "http://httpbin.org/post";
myhttp.formFields.Add("Form field 1", "Some content");
myhttp.formFields.Add("Form field 2", "Some more content");
httpResponse resp = myhttp.post();
Console.Write(resp.content);

POST request - Sending a file using multipart/form-data

httpRequest myhttp = new httpRequest();
myhttp.contentType = "multipart/form-data";
httpFile htfile = new httpFile("myFile", @"C:\myFile.txt");
myhttp.uploadFiles.Add(htfile);
myhttp.URI = "http://httpbin.org/post";
httpResponse resp = myhttp.post();
Console.Write(resp.content);

Basic access authentication

httpRequest myhttp = new httpRequest();
myhttp.username = "user";
myhttp.password = "passwd";
myhttp.URI = "http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd";
httpResponse resp = myhttp.get();
Console.Write(resp.content);

Using cookies

httpRequest myhttp = new httpRequest();
myhttp.URI = "http://httpbin.org/cookies";
myhttp.cookies.Add(new httpCookie("My cookie", "has a value"));
httpResponse resp = myhttp.get();
Console.Write(resp.content);

Posting JSON to a REST API

var root = new
{
	title = "foo",
	body = "bar",
	userId = 1
};
httpRequest myhttp = new httpRequest();
myhttp.URI = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts";
myhttp.headers.Add("Accept", "application/json");
myhttp.contentType = "application/json; charset=UTF-8";
myhttp.content = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(root);
httpResponse resp = myhttp.post();
Console.Write(resp.content);