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VB.NET Http Post

Asked by: regisdaniel

Hi all!

I need to develop an VB.NET app that will make a POST request to an WEB Server.
Actualy, i have an ASP Script as an example of how could i be this post to my web server. The ASP code is show below:

<%
' Server URL, HTTPS
const strTangramURL = "https://tangram/scripts/tangram.asp"
' Service Code
const strServiceId = "015"
' User and Password that will be used to authenticate on the WEB Server
const strTangramUser = "user"
const strTangramPwd = "password"

' *********** Mount a XML that will be sent to the server ***********
' recupera o destinatário da mensagem
strDestination = Request("destination")
' recupera o texto da mensagem
strText = Request("text")      

' monta a string XML
strXML = _
"<xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""ISO-8859-1"">" & _
"<tangram_request service_id="" & strServiceId & "">" & _
"      <send>" & _
"            <destination>" & strDestination & "</destination>" & _
"            <text>" & strText & "</text>" & _
"      </send>" & _
"</tangram_request>"

' *********** envia ao TANGRAM ***********
' carrega a string XML par o componente
Set oDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
oDoc.async = false
oDoc.loadXML strXML

' Here is where we connect to the server.....
Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHttp")
oHttp.SetTimeouts 10000, 10000, 10000, 10000
oHttp.open "POST", strTangramURL, False, strTangramUser, strTangramPwd
oHttp.send oDoc
strXML = oHttp.responseText

' *********** Verify the Result***********
' recupera o código de retorno da operação
oDoc.loadXML strXML
strCode = oDoc. selectSingleNode("/tangram_response/send").attributes.getNamedItem("code").text
if strCode = "0" then
' redireciona para a página de sucesso
      Response.Redirect "sucesso.asp"
else
      ' recupera a descrição do erro
      strDescription = oDoc.selectSingleNode("/tangram_response/send/description").text
' redireciona para a página de erro
      Response.Redirect "erro.asp?msg=" & strDescription
end if

Set oDoc = Nothing
Set oHttp = Nothing
%>


So, can anybody shows me convert the ASP code above to a VB.NET method that will do the same thing?
Thanks all!

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by: Justin_WPosted on 2005-03-29 at 12:56:42ID: 13656443

Basically, you would need to do the following:
1. create a HttpWebRequest object and use HttpWebRequest.Method = "POST".
2. set the Post data to contain whatever data you need the form to submit. This is similar to setting up a querystring for a GET Request, and you use Encoded name=value pairs.
3. "Post" (i.e. execute and get the response for) the HttpWebRequest.

Here is a sample Shared Function to get you started (It does GET requests, but you should be able to easily modify it to do POST requests).

    Imports System.IO

    '' <summary>
    '' Programmatically performs an HTTP request for the <paramref name="fullUrl" /> URL's content.
    '' </summary>
    '' <exception cref="System.Exception">
    '' Thrown if the HTTP Request fails, or if the <see cref="System.Net.HttpWebResponse" />
    '' has a <see cref="System.Net.HttpWebResponse.StatusCode" /> other than
    '' <see cref="System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK" />.
    '' </exception>
    '' <returns>The content from the requested URL's HTTP Response.</returns>
    Public Shared Function ExecuteUrl( _
        ByVal fullUrl As String, _
        Optional ByVal bAllowAutoRedirect As Boolean = True, _
        Optional ByVal iTimeout As Integer = System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite _
    ) As String
        Dim webRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest
        Dim webResponse As System.Net.HttpWebResponse
        Try
            'Create an HttpWebRequest with the specified URL.
            webRequest = CType(System.Net.WebRequest.Create(fullUrl), System.Net.HttpWebRequest)
            webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = bAllowAutoRedirect
            'webRequest.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 50
            webRequest.Timeout = iTimeout

            'Send the request and wait for a response.
            Try
                webResponse = CType(webRequest.GetResponse(), System.Net.HttpWebResponse)
                Select Case (webResponse.StatusCode)
                    Case System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK
                        'read the content from the response
                        Dim responseStream As System.IO.Stream = _
                            webResponse.GetResponseStream()
                        Dim responseEncoding As System.Text.Encoding = _
                            System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
                        ' Pipes the response stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format.
                        Dim responseReader As New StreamReader(responseStream, responseEncoding)
                        Dim responseContent As String = _
                            responseReader.ReadToEnd()
                        Return responseContent
                    Case System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Redirect, System.Net.HttpStatusCode.MovedPermanently
                        Throw New System.Exception(String.Format( _
                            "Unable to read response content.  URL has moved. StatusCode={0}.", _
                            webResponse.StatusCode))
                    Case System.Net.HttpStatusCode.NotFound
                        Throw New System.Exception(String.Format( _
                            "Unable to read response content. URL not found. StatusCode={0}.", _
                            webResponse.StatusCode))
                    Case Else
                        Throw New System.Exception(String.Format( _
                            "Unable to read response content. StatusCode={0}.", _
                            webResponse.StatusCode))
                End Select
            Catch we As System.Net.WebException
                'If (we.Status = Net.WebExceptionStatus.Timeout) Then
                '    Return False
                'End If
                Throw New System.Exception( _
                    "Unable to execute URL.", _
                    we)
            Finally
                If (Not IsNothing(webResponse)) Then
                    webResponse.Close()
                End If
            End Try
        Catch e As System.Exception
            Throw New System.Exception( _
                "Unable to execute URL.", _
                e)
        End Try
    End Function

 

by: regisdanielPosted on 2005-03-29 at 13:04:08ID: 13656521

Thanks Juntin.

But, i never wrote a line of code in ASP and, on your code, you dont send the authentication information to your server.
Do you have a easier example to me?

thanks!

 

by: gangwischPosted on 2005-03-30 at 00:01:09ID: 13659769

her is the easiest way:
Dim web As New System.Net.WebClient()

web.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

Dim d As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("SEARCHSTRING=test")
Dim res As Byte() = web.UploadData("http://somewhere.com/search.asp", "POST", d)

msgbox(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(res))

 

by: robanddeannaPosted on 2010-04-07 at 15:10:09ID: 30059474

How can you use the above to display the web page in a browser rather than a message box?

 

by: gangwischPosted on 2010-04-07 at 16:57:38ID: 30066792

Instead of
msgbox(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(res))
Do the following:
Response.Write(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(res))

 

by: robanddeannaPosted on 2010-04-08 at 16:01:08ID: 30149830

Thank you so much for your kind help. Unfortunately, this didn't do quite what I was hoping. It appears to have scraped the page & the resulting images did not appear & links do not work. I was hoping the vb.net button would link to another site & append the query string using a post instead of get. The query string is based on user input. I've searched for days & haven't found a solution yet. Anyhow, nevertheless this solution will definitely come in handy for other things. Thanks again.

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