Building on dnolans example, this is the version I could actually get to work (there were some errors with the boundary, encoding wasn't set) :-)
To send the data:
HttpWebRequest oRequest = null;
oRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://you.url.here");
oRequest.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + PostData.boundary;
oRequest.Method = "POST";
PostData pData = new PostData();
Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
Stream oStream = null;
/* ... set the parameters, read files, etc. IE:
pData.Params.Add(new PostDataParam("email", "[email protected]", PostDataParamType.Field));
pData.Params.Add(new PostDataParam("fileupload", "filename.txt", "filecontents" PostDataParamType.File));
*/
byte[] buffer = encoding.GetBytes(pData.GetPostData());
oRequest.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
oStream = oRequest.GetRequestStream();
oStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
oStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse oResponse = (HttpWebResponse)oRequest.GetResponse();
The PostData class should look like:
public class PostData
{
// Change this if you need to, not necessary
public static string boundary = "AaB03x";
private List<PostDataParam> m_Params;
public List<PostDataParam> Params
{
get { return m_Params; }
set { m_Params = value; }
}
public PostData()
{
m_Params = new List<PostDataParam>();
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns the parameters array formatted for multi-part/form data
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public string GetPostData()
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (PostDataParam p in m_Params)
{
sb.AppendLine("--" + boundary);
if (p.Type == PostDataParamType.File)
{
sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Content-Disposition: file; name=\"{0}\"; filename=\"{1}\"", p.Name, p.FileName));
sb.AppendLine("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine(p.Value);
}
else
{
sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"", p.Name));
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine(p.Value);
}
}
sb.AppendLine("--" + boundary + "--");
return sb.ToString();
}
}
public enum PostDataParamType
{
Field,
File
}
public class PostDataParam
{
public PostDataParam(string name, string value, PostDataParamType type)
{
Name = name;
Value = value;
Type = type;
}
public PostDataParam(string name, string filename, string value, PostDataParamType type)
{
Name = name;
Value = value;
FileName = filename;
Type = type;
}
public string Name;
public string FileName;
public string Value;
public PostDataParamType Type;
}