Here is multipart data post with basic authentication C#
public string UploadFilesToRemoteUrl(string url)
{
try
{
Dictionary<string, object> formFields = new Dictionary<string, object>();
formFields.Add("requestid", "{\"id\":\"idvalue\"}");
string boundary = "----------------------------" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString("x");
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary;
// basic authentication.
var username = "userid";
var password = "password";
string credidentials = username + ":" + password;
var authorization = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(credidentials));
request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authorization;
request.Method = "POST";
request.KeepAlive = true;
Stream memStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
WriteFormData(formFields, memStream, boundary);
FileInfo fileToUpload = new FileInfo(@"filelocation with name");
string fileFormKey = "file";
if (fileToUpload != null)
{
WritefileToUpload(fileToUpload, memStream, boundary, fileFormKey);
}
request.ContentLength = memStream.Length;
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
memStream.Position = 0;
byte[] tempBuffer = new byte[memStream.Length];
memStream.Read(tempBuffer, 0, tempBuffer.Length);
memStream.Close();
requestStream.Write(tempBuffer, 0, tempBuffer.Length);
}
using (var response = request.GetResponse())
{
Stream responseSReam = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(responseSReam);
return streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
using (WebResponse response = ex.Response)
{
HttpWebResponse httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)response;
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
return streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
// write form id.
public static void WriteFormData(Dictionary<string, object> dictionary, Stream stream, string mimeBoundary)
{
string formdataTemplate = "\r\n--" + mimeBoundary +
"\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\";\r\n\r\n{1}";
if (dictionary != null)
{
foreach (string key in dictionary.Keys)
{
string formitem = string.Format(formdataTemplate, key, dictionary[key]);
byte[] formitembytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(formitem);
stream.Write(formitembytes, 0, formitembytes.Length);
}
}
}
// write file.
public static void WritefileToUpload(FileInfo file, Stream stream, string mimeBoundary, string formkey)
{
var boundarybytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("\r\n--" + mimeBoundary + "\r\n");
var endBoundaryBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("\r\n--" + mimeBoundary + "--");
string headerTemplate = "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"; filename=\"{1}\"\r\n" +
"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n";
stream.Write(boundarybytes, 0, boundarybytes.Length);
var header = string.Format(headerTemplate, formkey, file.Name);
var headerbytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(header);
stream.Write(headerbytes, 0, headerbytes.Length);
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(file.FullName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
var buffer = new byte[1024];
var bytesRead = 0;
while ((bytesRead = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0)
{
stream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
}
stream.Write(endBoundaryBytes, 0, endBoundaryBytes.Length);
}